Out since June 2023, my new book places flesh and blood people alongside concepts and theories in order to try & explain Europe's troubled state.
In a review for Think Scotland, the veteran political figure Jim Sillars wrote:
‘Tom Gallagher has written a superb book on European
His work dried up after he expressed scepticism about climate change and of course he became a non-person on the BBC. But this gifted author and broadcaster is likely to have done far more for the environment than Geta Thunberg will ever accomplish.
Jeremy Clarkson:
'What I hate most of all about Labour, though, is that they believe that if you work hard all your life and make some savings to tide you over in your old age, those savings are theirs.
And that they should be given to people who haven’t worked at all.’
One of the blackest days for British democracy seen for many years.
The fig leaf that Speaker Hoyle is clinging to is that it was necessary to break the rules to prevent the risk of not just MPs but their families facing violence.
The issue is a foreign one where Britain has no
🚨 BREAKING:
‘I regret it, and I apologise. I do take responsibility for my actions…’
Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle expresses his ‘sadness’ at the outcome of today’s chaotic events in Parliament over the vote on a ceasefire in Gaza.
Radio silence from David Lammy, Diane Abbott, Keir Starmer after a brilliant investigation by the Daily Mail uncovered a foul racket by a nest of immigration lawyers? 'Surely they can't all be washing their hair'? observes Sarah Vine.
She goes on to say that:
The revelations
Nick Robinson gets both barrels from Brendan O'Neil.
'The BBC had written to Farage to apologise for its promotion of 'incomplete and inaccurate' information. In short, fake news. So you might have expected the hosts of Today to show a little humility.
Not a bit of it. Nick
Call me a cynic, but I doubt Jolyon Maugham, Alistair Campbell, Jon Sopel, John Simpson and Dan Walker would have rallied to the defence of Huw Edwards if he was a GB News presenter. It’s only because they regard him as one of their own that these panjandrums have urged the press
'In what is by far the gravest crisis since 1945, an independent United Kingdom has shown that it exerts more influence on international affairs outside the European Union than it did inside, & is a force for good in the world.' Alas, needs saying because BBC refuses to say it.
Dear Yvette Cooper,
With your deplorable track-record of sweeping child rape gangs under the carpet in Labour-supporting Northern cities, your bluster and rage towards the Home Secretary is understandable.
She is a horror in your eyes because she is raising the expectation level
Suella Braverman is out of control. Her article tonight is a highly irresponsible, dangerous attempt to undermine respect for police at a sensitive time, to rip up operational independence & to inflame community tensions. No other Home Secretary of any party would ever do this
LETTER
If you watched Channel 4 news tonight, Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviewed the Ambassador for Israel. It was the most aggressive obnoxious biased interview from him I’ve ever seen. His interruptions and verbal bullying of the ambassador was appalling. He continually ambushed
There's now little doubt that she walks in the footsteps of Orwell:
'JK Rowling, however, is simply too big, too rich, too popular to silence. And so, by conclusively demonstrating this week that “misgendering” is not a “hate crime”, she has not only defanged the laws that
@afneil
Israelis have finally run out of patience with the BBC after showing incredible forbearance over decades perhaps because of its 'British' character.
I wonder is there any large-scale media organization which is as cordially disliked as the BBC, especially in its home base?
'Homeowners in Scotland face being banned from selling their properties unless they swap gas boilers for heat pumps, under plans being considered by Humza Yousaf’s government.
This is the path to unvarnished tyranny which most communist states would have thought twice about
@afneil
@Chronus8
Andrew Neil's report about the climate of fear at the BBC for Jews should be raised and discussed in Parliament. Instead, it will be swept under the carpet like so much in disintegrating Britain.
Ironically, with it's insistence on a radically diverse workforce the BBC now enjoys
Why of all weeks, has 71-year-old Blair chosen now to revive his EU dead parrot?
Surely it can't have anything to do with how Nigel Farage has blown the doors off the biggest scandal corporate Britain has known in many years.
The banks were a crucial instrument in Blair's bid to
LETTER: I'm Scottish, lifelong resident,have 4 children & 4 grandchildren & never thought I'd want to live out my days in England where I've no ties. The atmosphere created by the SNP has convinced me otherwise. Sadly Scotland isn't the sane country it was.
Alleged assault occurred 1 hr after London Bridge when police at full stretch.
The Telegraph has the fullest details and, incredibly, Diane Abbott went to law to see if the story could be withheld.
What price the rule of law if entitled Labour wins?
story.
Dyson found the EU standards for vacuum cleaners were rigged in favour of German manufacturers. The EU courts rejected his case but he won on appeal & uncovered examples of correspondence between German manufacturers & the EU while consumer groups ignored
This is a bit of a first in the annals of Western politics: a party leader caught on tape urging MPs to rally around a sex pest colleague and not his victim (& receiving hearty endorsement). Of course it can only be...the SNP.
Today's revelations that Nicola Sturgeon cold bloodedly destroyed records of decisions made by her during the Covid pandemic is an indictment of democracy not just in Scotland but in Britain.
The Johnson government feared to bring her to heel. Whitehall bureaucratic chiefs who
@ThoughtsToby
A plumber in a small Irish town finds his voice, and is pretty damned eloquent, about the miserable fate which the Dublin Woke elite has is getting ready for the many folk like him.
As the wolves are circling in Humza Yousaf's own party and his own lengthy backing for Palestinian militant movements, attracts notice, be sure of this: as sure as night follows day, there will be an incident meant to take the heat off this unworthy First Minister of Scotland
Incredibly when Jacob Rees-Mogg MP stood up to probe Rishi Sunak on why a bank "where the Government is the largest share holder" is cancelling the accounts of political opponents because of their views, Sunak turned around to urge that they should contact the ombudsman to
@afneil
@nir_nata
Nicola and Peter put Scotland and its inhabitants through torment for years.
Now one of the principles in this sinister cabaret gets a taste of the treatment they inflicted on millions!
'Sturgeon, drunk on lockdown moralism, delighted in being that bit more tyrannical than the supposedly feckless English, and was showered with praise for doing so by the London media.
For all of Boris Johnson’s myriad flaws and failures, I can’t help but scoff at all this
Ally McCoist doesn't quiver before boorish SNP Scot twits: '
I get the rivalry with England and Scotland, and I get some of the Scots, perhaps SNP, fans giving it the whole bit, but I am talking about in general. There should be respect shown for an opposing national anthem
@drl_jones
Listeners, especially ones who have a challenging day ahead of them, don't take kindly to being lectured first thing in the morning by a BBC Today host with the manner of a supercilious high court judge.
But the penny has yet to drop at the BBC (probably never will!)
'To say fans 'aren’t understanding the message', as Gareth Southgate has done, insults their intelligence. Fans do understand- they are just sick & tired of being spoken down to. They are there to watch a football match, not to be lectured on morality.'
Arlene Foster gets Nicola Sturgeon:
'Both the SNP & Sinn Fein have the majority against them but they thunder that what they seek is on its way.
That narrative is then run by some media organisations and people who frankly should know better.' '
@Gerashchenko_en
Menacing surviving members of the Navalny family seems to be a sadistic game played by Putin to see how far he can go before 'traditional' backers in the West finally decide it might be a good idea to wash their hands of him.
When the main item of 'world news' on a major Portuguese news site, is that 'the police have confiscated the luxury motor home of the ex-PM of Scotland at her mother-in-law's place', you get the sense that years of propaganda meant to break-up 🇬🇧 are over
It is unlikely any Western democracy since 1945 has seen a chief executive & her minister of justice summon a mob in order to defy the rule of law. It happened in Glasgow on 13 May when it became clear how intent Sturgeon is on inciting full scale revolt.
When this low mean period in our history is over, it won't be the verdict of this hack which will define Oliver but instead his educational work on television, his books, and his hate-free patriotism.
@afneil
It takes a fellow Scot and a much wiser and morally-grounded individual to point out what a disaster actor David Tennant is proving to be with his eruptions against women like Kemi Badenoch who are trying to prevent the crushing of elementary women's rights.
LETTER
Gardeners World was pretty much the last BBC programme I stuck with. But I’ve even finally ditched this one. Every episode bangs on about the fateful climate change and how all Monty’s plants are going to die as Herefordshire turns into the Gobi Desert. In the middle of a
@visegrad24
Good to see this devastating rebuttal from Albania's UN ambassador of Russian state's claims that in its 15 month-long invasion of Ukraine, it is innocent of all the crimes laid at its door.
@TRobinsonNewEra
@metpoliceuk
If much of the MSM and commentating classes had not bidden farewell to common sense, they might grasp that this was one of the few good days London had enjoyed for a long time.
'It was the most extraordinary case of policy capture in the history of devolution. A handful of Scottish government-funded trans charities, backed by the LGBT lobby group Stonewall, managed to persuade Scottish political parties, the civil service, the NHS and much of the media
@ArchRose90
@BarbaraRich_law
Judge who shows solidarity with demonstrators using symbols to celebrate the attack on mainly defenceless civilians on 7 October illustrates the sickness gnawing away at the vitals of British justice.
Terrible consequences will be hard to avoid unless Judge Ikram is reigned in.
The boycott of GB News is a turning point. Business must choose: is it for-profit selling to customer-kings, or a tool of the Left, a political body pretending to be commercial, hating freedom? If the latter, the impending backlash will be ferocious. 1/1
Electrifying talk from Neil Oliver on how British Scots are abused by a power-mad local leader and effectively left to fend for themselves by Westminster. I don't think the destructive baleful impact of someone drunk on emergency powers has been driven home so brilliantly.
Neil Oliver: British citizens in Scotland deserve better. We deserve to be treated not as Queen Nicola’s subjects, but as the British citizens we are.
Watch GB News: Freeview 236, Sky 515, Virgin 626
David Davis MP (a Tory rights defender ) has just got up at Westminster and accused the Sturgeon admin of a systematic 'abuse of process' in the Salmond enquiry. The purpose, he believes is not to protect complainants but to to save the skin of the First Minister. 1/1
Most important Scottish politician in the modern era walks into an Edinburgh court to face multiple charges of sexual assault. But BBC Scotland's 6.30pm news leads on obesity crisis and death of much-loved accordion player.
(Dictators would die for such a media).
@Mick_O_Keeffe
Even the simple matter of a disabled person trying to get off a bus in once amiable and obliging Dublin shows how civilization is coming apart at the seams there.
@DavQuinn
You're having one of your Charles Moore (of D. telegraph) days David.
The government is using state violence against law-abiding communities and forceful pushback is inevitable.
@calvinrobinson
Calvin Robinson's 1 hour programme offering a thoughtful un-preachy view of the meaning of Christmas, was almost revolutionary compared with the empty platitudes served up by the BBC and the rest. (I ended up watching it twice!)
My thoughts on what the Prime Minister has just done:
Purging Braverman ensures that Sunak will soon crash out of politics with a standing which makes that of Heath and Major appear stratospheric.
She has been a purifying influence in a desolate time in politics.
She gave
Scottish Green leader Harvie has the knack of lowering any occasion by his rancorous outlook on humanity, in this case the late Prince Philip who had more genuine regard for the planet in his little finger than this sack of misery has in his puny frame.
@NicolaSturgeon
Sorry Dear Nicola, if a young woman plunges into the political arena, becomes finance minister (with no apparent qualifications) and displays histrionics when it is calmly pointed out that Scotland can't pay its way under separatism, behaving like a 'shouty girl' well sums it up.
@ProfKarolSikora
Much respected British cancer specialist says enough is enough and the NHS must abandon its ruinous ideological crusade and concentrate on patients and frontline staff:
'Critics of the diversity industry within the health service are hounded and abused as heretics..'
@DownWithTheSNP
First Lady of Scotland whose mother went to Gaza despite Foreign Office advice, delivers a rather hate-laden public seminar in Edinburgh about problems there.
Her husband's Hate speech law presumably would make this a criminal offence if she was describing Palestinians, Turks,
@oflynnsocial
A Met Commissioner who had the presence of mind would say baldly to Sunak and Braverman that a serious crisis is unavoidable, it will likely assume violent form, and the police is hopelessly ill-equipped to contain looming unrest.
A good start for Sunak would be to come clean
Lorna Slater, nomadic missionary for Green despotism, has landed a top political post in Scotland thanks to the crazy electoral system. The Canadian who is frantically cashing in on the privileges her job of Circular Economy Minister brings, plans to persecute households who defy
@danwootton
Good to see the deputy PM Angela Rayner having a 'knees up' in an Ibiza good time club.
Puritanism for thee but not for me seems to be the message.
Why can't we all be allowed to have a rave even if it only involves the occasional ciggie in an English pub garden?
@jonsopel
Left-wingers, especially in the luxury leisure class like Jon Sopel, hate it to be put about that some of the most determined 'progressive' leaders are, like Mayor Khan, up to their necks in sectarian politics.
Jan Leeming, who was BBC News in the 1980s, can't believe
how, under Lord Tony Hall, Woke propaganda and lectures from 'experts' have replaced balanced news presentation.
@jessphillips
One day Jess Phillips you will wake up and find that the MP for Clacton is really your friend and doesn't deserve to be palmed off like this.
By then, I suspect you will need a police escort whenever it is necessary for you to pay a visit to your B'ham constituency!
England's Norh-East will benefit to the tune of 18,000 jobs and £3.2 billion for the local economy from a new freeport. By refusing to participate, Sturgeon high priest of the Church of Anglophobia, ensures Scotland loses up to £4.5 billion.
'Nicola Sturgeon was one of the West’s most authoritarian leaders, an enemy of free speech and someone who had no qualms about turning her country into a temporary dictatorship during the pandemic.'
from Toby Young : how history will see her.
Let it sink in. A player is barred from representing his country for historic adolescent comments to his mates that only resurfaced due to being assiduously sought out. To appease the race-baiters he is thrown under the bus for historic thought crimes.
Democracy's servant
@afneil
baited and hooked slippery Sturgeon tonight. He set out her appalling record in health, suggested that she might be prosecuted for her rash legal promises, and said she posed a far greater danger to the NHS than Donald Trump!
How many of the luvvies in the London media world will be calling in sick tomorrow as their fallen heroine takes the stand in the face of damning evidence of her misconduct during the pandemic.
They trilled almost in unison that under Sturgeon Scotland was handling the Covid
There is no pussyfooting around from the indomitable Maureen Lipman who offers a much-needed reality check to Artists for Palestine UK:
'These bleeding heartless liberals care so deeply for the Palestinians (who, since 1937, have turned down no fewer than five offers of a
@David_Cameron
@lewis_goodall
Israel is fighting with one hand tied behind its back to minimise civilian casualties.
Why should Israelis listen to you Lord Cameron? You have disgracefully allowed anti-Semitism free rein in London and other British cities.
Your liberal Cosmopolitan demographic is backing you
Monteith: Sturgeon is devolution's destroyer:
'If justice is not done the Chancellor should announce Scottish businesses can apply directly to him for the relief & he will deduct the money from the British funds sent to Sturgeon’s administration.'
@LeoKearse
The march of events will leave Commander Starmer hopelessly stranded.
This needlessly provocative and tin-eared statement he delivered just now ensures that the time he has left in power will be measured by events on the streets not by the number of votes he can cling onto.
Warning from Peter Lilley, one of Thatcher’s ablest ministers:
'The UK is well on the way to succumbing to adopting the Iranian system of rule by a Council of Guardians – wise Ayatollahs – who oversee what elected representatives must, may and cannot do.
Senior judges and
Pollok is an unhappy, ill-used part of Glasgow whose juvenile delinquency & high rate of drug dependency is worsened by politicians obsessing about a fantasy 'independence'.
Yousaf lives in a big house in another part of Scotland. His chauffeur-driven visit to his political
Out with Team Pollok taking our positive case for independence to the doorsteps.
Great to see so many
@theSNP
activists campaigning across Scotland, you are our biggest asset, thank you for working tirelessly for our country.
This is how we win our independence
#ActiveSNP
Yesterday evening, it was my bad luck to attend a vigil Mass in theEnglish Catholic diocese of Lancaster where the congregation was treated to a full-on liberal progressive view of the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
The priest compared the suffering of English Catholics at
Geore Orwell predicted that if facsism came to Britain it would be dcked out as 'anti-fascist'.
Brilliant monologue from Leo Kearse on how 'Springtime for Hitlerism' has arrived in 🏴
'A Hate speech law that will come into force in Scotland on 1 April will give the Scottish
‘Labour supported this law in Scotland, and they’ll bring it in for England too’ -
@LeoKearse
Scotland has introduced hate crime laws where the 'victim' decides whether or not what someone said is a hate crime: 'So much for FREEDOOOOOM!'
LETTER Sturgeon aims to leave a UNION of 4 countries where she has an equal footing and join 1 of 27 where she'll have no voice
She has a bankrupt govt,no viable currency, a dwindling overtaxed population &an endless stock of useless politicians to draw on
@sumlenny
The huge fire at Blackberries, the Russian equivalent of Amazon seems to have been a kind of Spartacus revolt by workers who feared that like thousands of others work colleagues, they would be forcibly handed over to the Russian military by their bosses.
@HumzaYousaf
Devolutionary Scotland reaches its nadir when joke Minister of justice dismisses the gravest of charges about misrule and criminality occurring at the heart of government just to shield a boss who indulges his Wokiness.
Scotland's navel-gazing First Minister Humza Yousaf is chiefly concerned with possible family woes in Gaza.
The militancy of Hamas has not had stauncher friend than he among west European senior government officials.
The failure to reflect the abhorrence of most Scots about the
Such praise is being withheld from Boris & co in London who are doing real heavy-lifting to try and overcome this crisis. Meanwhile, a showboating regional nonentity relies on sycophants like Massie to boost her solitary achievement - self-agrandisement.
‘I suspect the police and Crown came to an agreement that it would be madness to do it in the midst of the leadership election'.
Ex-top cop points to throroughly politicised Crown Office in Scotland which times a raid to suit the SNP's electoral calendar.
Welcome to McBanana
@StevenEdginton
Intrepid investigation by Steve Edginton shows why the toxic Home Office needs to be swiftly broken up.
Otherwise its determination to place religious sectarianism at the heart of policy-making is likely to result in catastrophic strife.
Today's Times Higher Education survey of the voting preferences of British university lecturers:
54% Labour
23% Lib Dem
8% Conservative
As workers turn their back on a party that is a menace to their livelihoods & freedoms , the intellectual class cling to an anti-Semitic party.
Macron is given the armlock by Le Pen. She only consents to pass his bill if benefits are withheld from legal immigrants not for 6 months but for 5 years.
It means paying into the welfare system in 🇫🇷 won't be a joke as it increasingly is in 🇬🇧 .
@Channel4News
Caveman Liverpool mayor angry because locals disliked the 'presidential' style visit of Starmer to Southport.
It was a purely protocol affair. He didn't stop to talk to people and appreciate their fear and grief.
It was purely designed for media optics, the way that Starmer
@hurryupharry
@KingsCollegeLon
Chilling large assembly outside King's College London.
What's around the corner?
One thing is for sure: it won't be a robust condemnation of extremist politics invading the portals of the university from any of its rubber-spined leaders.
SNP's No 2 at Westminster announces that she is stepping down as an MP at the next election.
Tiredness is cited by the 28-year-old as an explanation.
Could it be that someone who enjoyed a shock landslide victory in 2015 is reluctant to make fresh headlines in 2024...when the
Actor who has thrived in an age of increasingly unwatchable films, reveals sad fact that he can only indulge his hobby of Scottish independence from 5,000 miles away because the weather at home simply doesn't agree with him.
@KonstantinKisin
@GarthGodsman
Eloquence of Konstantin Kisin on BBC Question Time manages to prompt left-wing audience members to display the traits which they vociferously deplore in others.
Matt Goodwin uses a rare opportunity provided by the BBC to express the views of ordinary Britons about the Middle East, two-thirds of whom in a recent poll see Hamas as a terrorist organization.
He contends that official Britain has 'lost its moral compass' thanks to the way
Hard pressed to think of any West European leader in peacetime who has exploited a non-political calamity with a a tragic human dimension to such naked advantage.
At least one London journo, Madeleine Grant, is completely unmoved by Sturgeon's 'little girl lost' in the nightmarish world of Covid routine:
'Sturgeon conceded.. as if it had only just dawned on her that outside of banana republics, important meetings between ministers tend to
@KemiBadenoch
Finally a Tory MP, (Kemi Badenoch) is prepared o say up front that certain Labour MPs delight in promoting the anti-British agendas of other countries where they often have strong roots or profitable links.
Tahir Ali, the MP for Birmingham Hall Green is a classic example as he
@severincarrell
@spectator
It turns out that not everyone in the Scottish political firmament dances to Sturgeon's tune. The questions that she wanted ruled out of order in the Parliamentary committee's investigation of the Salmond affair can now be tabled and her nemesis is likely to be giving evidence.
Proud of this guy more than words can say. With magnificent spirit, he articulates the feelings of multitudes of Scots sick of a decade of politics as a mad separatist caper. The voice of rationality WILL prevail in this corner of Britain!
The
@theSNP
say there is a power grab but last night in Parliament not a single one of their MPs could defend the claim. Why? Because there is no power grab and we have to call out the SNP on this.
Some of Channel 4's own journalists finally break ranks and ask management to put a stop to destruction of news values and systematic denigration of Johnson and the Conservatives.
Try as I might, I cannot recall a more scorching piece about the failings of Scottish devolution, in the hands of separatists, than this scorching piece from
@afneil
Disclosures aplenty which the media won't ever follow up.
Draconian restrictions will be reviewed next Wed. by which time the Exam fiasco for young Scots should be off page 1 & she can resume playing her favourite breakaway hits on the Indy Jukebox.
NO CONFIDENCE motion from Opposition is OVERDUE!
@TulsiGabbard
@porridgeisgood
When a moderate figure like Tulsi Gabbard (once a Democrat contender for the Presidency) warns about 'the death rattle of democracy', it may be time to finally take notice.
No hiding place for the lefty knave Owen Jones as Andrew Neill politely shows what a moral midget he is:
‘Jones certainly doesn't like Hamas being compared to Nazis. He states that explicitly — and unconvincingly...
He claims that atrocities can be carried out by ordinary people
@kelvmackenzie
Credit Suisse banking high-flyer breaks London 6 Regent park speed limit, kills an 81-year-old and faces no charges. It certainly beats the tame practice of cancelling bank accounts.
@EamonnHolmes
Carolyn McCall and the other pious left-wing managers who have ruined commercial TV for most of the British public have the quaint notion that they can go on a forever even as their proteges fall by he wayside.