Appeasement doesn’t work.

What about giving powers to the rest of us to buy, at auction, council homes and other public sector property that have been empty for over six months?

Why stop there, Emily? Do you have a spare room? Then shouldn’t your house be seized to tackle overcrowding? The state could reallocate you to an egalitarian housing unit.

A reminder that this week, Miliband met with the Foreign Minister of the vile, despicable regime that did this.

Labour promised 1.5 million homes. It was not just a target or an ambition. Their Manifesto was emphatic. It said: "Labour will get Britain building again, creating jobs across England, with 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament."

This is appalling: "At the time he was awarded refugee status, it was public knowledge that he had worked for Haniyeh, was the son of another senior Hamas official, and had been arrested in Egypt for operating a tunnel allegedly used to smuggle firearms and gold into Gaza."

This is Fascism in action. And it’s not coming from the young man delivering election leaflets.

Margaret Thatcher: "No wonder so many of our people - some of the best and brightest - are depressed and talk of emigrating. Even so, I think they are wrong at giving up too soon. Many of the things we hold dear are threatened as never before, but none has yet been lost. So stay here. Stay and help us defeat Socialism, so that the Britain you have known may be the Britain your children will know."

The Holborn and St Pancras by-election must be a free and fair election. The police seem unwilling or unable to ensure this. That is something that should dismay all democrats from all political parties.

Lord Agnew: "In the one pilot I was allowed to operate as a minister in the Cabinet Office, we showed a 15x return on the amount invested in countering fraud in a year. Any business person would bite your hand off for that. This could save at least £30 billion a year." centrewrite.brightblue.org.u…

This is simply not on. Far-left agitators now feel emboldened to harass canvassers because they know they’ll get away with it. If these same activists were right-wing and chanting "stop the boats" at Labour canvassers, @ShabanaMahmood would move swiftly!

Britain told the world what time it is. 🇬🇧 Not by asking. In 1884, 25 nations sat down in Washington to pick 1 line for the world's clocks. France wanted Paris. Germany wanted Berlin. Some wanted the middle of the Pacific. But the sailors had already voted. 2 thirds of the ships on earth steered by British charts, because for 200 years the Observatory at Greenwich had kept the navy's time, and for 50 of them a red ball had dropped from its roof at 1 o'clock so every captain on the Thames could set his watch. The world's shipping already ran on our time. The vote just admitted it. 22 to 1. That's how Britain does things. Not by asking. By being the thing everyone already relies on. So every time zone on earth is still counted from a brass strip in a London park. You can stand on it, 1 foot east and 1 foot west. Most of London doesn't know it's there. They teach you it's called Greenwich Mean Time. Not that the world had a vote and chose us. That's what Proud Of Us is for. Britain didn't ask the world to choose it. It earned it. That's the way we work too. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. It runs on people like you. Every film comes with a free lesson for any school that wants one. The world set its watch by Britain once.... Let's give it a reason to look again. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

The Local Government Association is yet another slushfund blob entity that should be abolished. conservativehome.com/2026/09…

Student union posturing never ages well…

The great @conhome @harryph gets a mention in despatches 🫡🤭 (The ‘mistake’ is deliberate - part of H’s two Eds are better than one policy) 😂

Reform UK in local government came in promising to derail the gravy train. Instead, they have hopped aboard and are enjoying the ride. conservativehome.com/2026/09…