Senior Tory MP claims knife crime went up by 72% in London.

In fact offences fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Last night a lot of people will have seen Lawrence Rosenberg grilled by Claude Littner on The Apprentice. I took more of a "listening" approach for the new series of The Near Futurist podcast - if you want to know more about his vision for the future of PR, take a listen: pod.fo/e/3faeec

These guys are obsessed. They spend more time slagging off Britain than they do Iran

Including whoever got this on camera, to be fair.

I am still reeling from the idea that the Kaiser Chiefs were 20 years ago.

Almost certainly something about weight loss. And not looking my age.

I don’t think she’s well. Mostly because no matter how much I disagree with her politics I don’t want to think a former prime minister is that much of a traitor. Then she tells all those lies about the country she tried to run.

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

Did he really think he could legally oblige people to advertise with him? Actually scratch that, yes he apparently did.

Reminder that it was a key part of the successful 2019 manifesto, broadly popular with the public *and* popular with Conservative voters.

Only a total idiot is afraid of nothing.

“I think Iran was probably preparing something”, a line that every time I read it I can feel a braincell going “to hell with this, I’m out” and firing off for the last time.

I’ll be shocked, I tell you, shocked if he doesn’t get the Nobel prize next year.

On the one hand Donald Trump is saying Iranian military assets are now obliterated. On the other he is crying out for help from allies who don’t actually support his attack.
Why does he need this help after he’s “obliterated” everything?

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

My wife bought me “The Endling” among other books for Christmas and it’s certainly worth a go. She also bought “The Director” which I’ve almost finished. For something lighter I’ve recently enjoyed “The Book Binder’s Secret”.

Many happy returns! Was that one of your earlier roles?

That is not my understanding of “centrist”!

Would that be the Tony Blair that Trump invited to be part of his “Peace Council” or whatever it’s called? Just to clarify.

This isn’t going to matter for a good while yet.

Purves, Groom, Judd, Singleton

Hartnell, please! Hartnett js a chef.

I don’t welcome anyone having their lives turned upside down and indeed threatened by a war but good grief, bombs dropping and they’re worrying about their tax status? There’s a time and a place…

I could think of a few columnists they could clear out. Maybe keep the food critic if only because she’s called Xanthe and I just think the Telegraph food critic should have a name like that.

Also goes for fiction. Nothing wrong with a “Novella”.

There was a good piece in the Metro putting forward the idea that this is actually going to boost Starmer. Outside the right wing bubble in so much media a lot of people applaud him for not jumping immediately Trump decrees it.

Followed by “Think of the exposure…”

Not Sir Robin “deselected and replaced by an Asian woman” Wales? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

"Every news organization, for days, has been leading with Trump’s...impetuous (and illegal) strike on Iran ....[This] means that you’re seeing far less about some of the things Trump wants to blot out from existence, [like] his appearance in the Epstein files."

- The great @sulliview.bsky.social