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By  David Craig, on February 7th, 2026weekend blog The video below comes from Sky News Australia. This is a very different organisation to Sky News UK. Can you imagine something like this ever being shown on a British TV channel? And can you imagine how many millions of complaints would flood into the useless Ofcom by the perpetually offended were any UK channel to carry such a piece? Enjoy: By David Craig, on February 5th, 2026Thursday blog If I remember correctly, a mob of luvvies all lined up to pressure the UK Government to bring a (if I understand correctly) Jew-hating, West-loathing, violence-encouraging Egyptian to Britain. I think actors Brian Cox and Olivia Colman even appeared in a video demanding this (IMHO) vile creature’s release from an Egyptian prison and move to our country. So, I just have one simple question for all the luvvies who so desperately wanted an alleged Jew-hater to come to Britain: The Islamic Regime in Iran has just slaughtered between 10,000 and 20,000 (though it could be more) unarmed Iranians. Perhaps I haven’t been paying attention, but I don’t recall any of you protesting about that. Why such silence? A cynic, not myself of course, might be tempted to conclude that you are outraged when our friends from the most peaceful religion who want to kill Jews are imprisoned in places like Egypt. But you have no objection when our friends from our favourite religion slaughter each other in Iran and other such earthly paradises. Satire isn’t dead, it has moved to the Internet By David Craig, on February 3rd, 2026Wednesday blog A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about China Kowtowing Keir’s latest grovelling to his master – Xi Pingpong. I gave a short list of China Keir’s betrayals of the British national interest. But there’s one important one I forgot. The US and Canada impose tariffs of 100% on the import of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) to try to protect jobs in their car industries. Though, following Carney’s recent visit to China, we shouldn’t be surprised if Carney quietly lowers Canada’s tariffs. The EU imposes tariffs of up to 35.3% on imported Chinese EVs to try to protect jobs in the EU’s car industry. What about China Keir’s Britain? Well, Britain allows the import of Chinese EVs completely tariff free. This is leading to a tsunami of Chinese EV imports. Why? The government tells us that: “The UK government has maintained an open market for Chinese EVs to support domestic carbon emission reduction targets”. Hey, ho. If you work for a UK-based car manufacturer, you can soon kiss your job goodbye as cheap Chinese imports are starting to flood the UK market. Yet another disaster for British industry due to Keir’s grovelling to his Chinese masters and Miliband’s lunatic Net Stupid Zero lunacy. Labour were meant to be the party of the British working classes. When will what’s left of the working classes realise that Labour despise them, see them as racist neanderthal thugs and can’t wait to replace them with millions of often uneducated, often unemployable, sometimes criminal, rapey-rapey Third-worlders? By David Craig, on February 3rd, 2026Tuesday blog Apparently 27 January was ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’. Here’s how several BBC newsreaders reported it: In all these reports, the BBC never mentions that 6 million Jews were murdered simply becaue they were Jewish. Instead of saying “6 million Jews were killed” the BBC tells us that “6 million people” were killed. In fact, the 6 million were only the Jews. In addition, millions of gypsies, Poles, Russian prisoners, political opponents of the Nazis, homosexuals and other groups also perished in the German (sorry, I meant ‘Nazi’) extermination camps. So, if the BBC wanted to use the word “people”, the BBC should have said something like “up to 10 million people were killed in Nazi death camps”. But by using the “6 million” figure and omitting to mention the 6 million were Jewish, the BBC is deliberately insulting Jewish victims of German (sorry, I meant ‘Nazi’) hatred. It’s time to scrap the BBC. The BBC’s bias and antisemitism can never be fixed. By David Craig, on February 2nd, 2026Monday blog As you’ll know, our PM, (in his own mind) possibly the greatest international statesman Britain has ever produced, has just been over to China to grovel to Xi PingPong. Some newspaper headlines have suggested our ‘Sir’ Keir is “kowtowing to the Chinese”. This is amusingly appropriate. The word “kowtow” actually originates from the Cantonese kau-tau (Mandarin kòutóu), meaning “knock the head,” which refers to a traditional Chinese custom of kneeling and bowing low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground. It entered English in the early 19th century (circa 1804) to describe this act of extreme submission, worship, or respect, often performed before the Chinese emperor. It was a ritual required in the Qing Empire 1644-1911 to show deference. Whenever I see Starmer, I feel sick at his blatant, UK-hating, WEF-adoring, UN-worshipping contempt for the British. But one thing he said during his recent China trip made me particularly feel like vomiting. Starmer said something like: “I will always act in the national interest“. Hmm. Let’s check that. Were these in the national interest?
I could go on, but I think you get the picture. Why is Starmer so loathed? I think it may be because, even those who don’t follow politics, sense that he just lies and lies and lies and lies:
Here’s what some people, who are much more creative than me, think of our current PM: By David Craig, on January 30th, 2026Friday-weekend blog I’ve just finished reading ‘Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914‘ by Max Hastings. One of the issues that struck me was that leading politicians in several of the countries which went to war were actually quite keen of starting a war. Each country had its own objectives and leaders of several countries felt that a short sharp war with a quick victory would inject energy and spirit into their populations who had become idle and dissolute following years of peace. And, of course, many politicians were keen to leave their mark on history. What better way to do that than through a military victory? Unfortunately for tens of millions who would die or be maimed in WWI, European politicians didn’t learn the lesson from the American Civil War (1861-1865) in which over 650,000 soldiers were killed. The main lesson was that war was no longer a matter of brilliant Napoleonic outmanoevring the enemy and heroic cavalry charges. Instead war was turning into industrialised slaughter. And as the Italian diplomat and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli warned “Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please“.  Hold on, you may be thinking, what’s that got to do with the price of bread? Now fast-forward to the Blair/Bush attack on Iraq designed to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMDs. At the time I couldn’t help wondering why an invasion killing tens or even hundreds of thousands was necessary. It seemed to me that all the US and UK needed to do was make contact with a few of Saddam’s top military and offer them a deal. The deal could have been something like this: If you help us get Saddam, his ghastly sons and a few other top Iraqis whom we don’t like and if you give us free access to your country, then we’ll let you keep your looted billions and palaces and whores and fleets of luxury cars etc etc. But if you don’t work with us to topple Saddam, we’ll bomb your cess-pit country back to the Stone Age and we’ll obliterate you. Have we got a deal? This brings us to Trump. Trump wasn’t too pleased with Venezuelan mafia boss, Nicholas Maduro. He could have done a Blair/Bush and invaded the country thus getting the US involved in yet another grinding, seemingly never-ending war. But Trump is a businessman, not a politician. For him most issues can be solved by making a deal. With Venezuela the deal was something like: We’re taking Maduro to rot in a US prison for the rest of his life. If you work with us by selling us your oil, throwing out the Cubans, Russians and Chinese and spending some of your oil revenues on your people instead of stealing everything, then you can stay in power. If it’s no deal, we’ll bomb your pathetic little military into dust and either kill you or let your own people lynch you. Do we have a deal? Of course, this was not perfect for freedom and democracy in Venezuela. But it was a step in the right direction and also gave Trump a ‘double whammy – without Venezuelan oil, tottering Cuba would collapse and then he could offer a deal to Cuba’s leaders. Trump may thus get indirect control of both Venezuela and Cuba without the loss of a single American life. Pity Blair/Bush didn’t try this approach with Iraq. Now it’s Iran’s turn. From what little I understand (mainly from watching ‘Tousi TV’ on YouTube) Trump has offered the mad mullahs a deal: stop killing your people, stop all nuclear development, get rid of your ballistic missiles, stop threatening Israel, stop funding terrorism and release all your political prisoners. If you don’t agree, we’ll destroy your lousy regime and then help the Iranians hunt you down and lynch the lot of you. Of course, the mad mullahs are not as sensible as the Venezuelans. So they have rejected the deal and stopped all negotiations with the Americans. Hopefully the US will soon attack and annihilate the IRGC and the mad mullahs. But what I wanted to bring out in this blog is Trump’s genius in applying business dealmaking to international diplomacy. And I wanted to suggest that such an approach could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives had this been used in the last 20-30 years of local wars instead of the politicians’ approach of assuming invasion and war were the only option. By David Craig, on January 28th, 2026Wednesday blog Our politicians tell us so many lies, it’s often difficult to choose your favourite. But there’s one that our current Labour Government keeps using which I quite like – “We’re putting more money into people’s pockets“. Sounds great. But how is our economically-challenged Government putting more money into people’s pockets? Well, they’re trying to slow down the increase in energy bills. But that’s not putting more money into people’s pockets, that’s taking slightly less money out of people’s pockets. More ‘Breakfast Clubs’. But these ‘Breakfast Clubs’ have to be paid for. As Britain is effectively bankrupt with the Government spending much more than it takes in tax, this means more borrowing, means higher interest rates for the Government, means higher taxes, means less money in people’s pockets. Then there’s the really big one – increasing the minimum wage. Google tells us: ‘The National Minimum Wage (NMW) is set to increase from 1 April 2025 to between £11.82 to £12.39 an hour to reflect the cost of living under Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay’. But who pays for this increase? The Government? No. Employers? Yes. And how do employers pay for this increase in the minimum wage? There seem to be three main ways:
Oh, and I thought it worth mentioning New York. Under its exciting new socialist/communist Religion of Peace and Prosperity Mayor, Zohran ‘Mad-man’ Mamdani, effective January 1, 2026, New York State’s minimum wage increases to $17.00 per hour with the intention of raising this to $30 per hour by 2030. I’ll leave it up to you to work out whether this will lead to a wonderful economic boom in New York with millions of lower-paid workers delighted at having more money in their pockets or whether this will be an economic disaster leading the the closure of thousands of shops, restaurants and bars and a massive increase in unemployment leading to deserted dangerous streets thus turning the city from a thriving metropolis into a dystopian poverty- and crime-ridden slum.  Socialism – don’t you love it? By David Craig, on January 26th, 2026Monday blog A couple of blogs ago, I tried to highlight the economic destruction California governor, Gavin Newsom, was inflicting on his once prosperous state by obessively pursuing economically-suicidal, Ed-Milibandesque Net Zero policies. I listed a few major companies which have started closing down their California operations. Since then, I’ve seen there are many more moving out of the state, for example Intel, Coca Cola, Shell and MacDonalds. These are not small companies and their departure will mean the loss of tens of thousands of jobs – Shell, for example, are reported to be closing around 1,100 gas stations. The exodus from California will also mean a massive loss of tax revenue for the state to squander on all its woke schemes. But don’t worry, the California legislature has a cunning (Baldrick-like) plan. In November 2026, the Californian lawmakers will debate a proposed “Billionaires’ Tax”. Under the Billionaire Tax Act, Californians worth more than $1 billion would pay a one-time 5% tax on their total wealth. The California billionaire tax would apply to about 200 California billionaires who reside in the state. Roughly 90% of funds would go to healthcare and the rest to public K-14 education and state food assistance. The tax would be retrospective in that it would apply to all assets held in the state on 1 January 2026. Now, dear reader(s), what do you think has been the effect of this brilliant proposal?
If you have the intelligence of a Gavin Newsom or our own lovable Rachel Reeves, you probably believe the outcome is – A. If you have even a semblance of a functioning brain, you’ll know the answer is obviously – B. So far it has been reported that the following have been hitting the road:
Supporters of the proposal said the measure would raise about $100 billion and pushed back against the idea that billionaires would flee. “We see a lot of cheap talk from billionaires,” said UC Berkeley law professor Brian Galle, who helped write the proposal. “Some people do actually leave and change their behavior, but the vast bulk of wealthy people don’t, because it doesn’t make sense.” Well, he would say that wouldn’t he? I just checked the political affiliation of Berkeley on Google and learnt: The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is widely recognized as one of the most left-wing or progressive universities in the United States. It is renowned for its history of political activism, starting with the 1960s Free Speech Movement, and remains a liberal institution with a majority of students identifying as progressive. Student Body: A 2022 survey showed that over two-thirds of undergraduates described their political views as “slightly liberal,” “liberal,” or “very liberal”. Political Reputation: Often called a “progressive bastion” or the “People’s Republic of Berkeley,” the campus is known for its strong liberal ideology. Hey, lefties, what about the Laffer Curve? You’ve all presumably heard of the Laffer Curve. The message from the Laffer Curve is that people don’t mind paying taxes up to certain level, especially if they feel they are getting value for the taxes they pay – good public sevices, crime-free streets, border enforcement, proper healthcare etc etc. But once taxes go above a certain level, people start to feel they are being fleeced and start changing behaviours. So increases in tax rates start to result in falling tax revenues. We had perfect examples of this in Britain:
Though, perhaps we shouldn’t blame Reeves for her blundering incompetence? Probably her budgets are are actually written by Torsten ‘tax-tax-tax’ Bell and Darren ‘they’re mostly women and children’ Jones. The next major economy which is about to go down the ‘higher taxes, less revenue’ road to self-destruction is, of course, New York under its exciting new woke, left-wing, Religion of Peace mayor. It’s extraordinary that Lefties don’t seem to understand that higher taxation eventually leads to falling revenues. And even more extraordinary that people keep voting for these lefty eejits when the result of their policies is predictably always economic devastation. By David Craig, on January 23rd, 2026Friday-weekend blog Below I have copied and pasted a blog I wrote just over a week ago. In it I tried to explain that Trump’s supposed ‘threat’ to take over Greenland was just typical Trump ‘Art of the Deal’ tactics. You make a totally over-the-top demand, your adversaries do the headless chicken dance, you negotiate and then you get what you always realistically wanted. This seems to be what has happened with Greenland. Although many of the aspects of the deal seem to be unclear, I believe it allows Trump to set up military bases in Greenland which will be under US control. In addition it commits NATO to increase its opeations in the Arctic to ward off Russian and Chinese encroachment. This is probably what Trump wanted all along. But today’s blog is not about Trump and Greenland. It’s about how MSM ‘journalists’ have reported the story. There were absurd headlines like ‘Trump to invade Greenland‘, ‘Trump declares war on NATO’, ‘Trump hands Putin a victory‘ and even ‘US soldiers may refuse to fight in Greenland’. Journalism has become a tough business. Before the days of the Internet, newspapers could only get a vague idea of which articles attracted the most readers from doing market research. But now, with the Internet, editors can see exactly how many readers click on each article. This puts tremendous pressure on journalists to get the most clicks they can. After all, if your click rate drops and some young up-and-coming star gets more clicks than you or if your ever-so-friendly, always-smiling colleagues decide to knife you in the back, a falling click rate on your articles can end your career. That’s something you definitely don’t want if you have a mortgage to pay and even school fees as well. So, a high click rate means survival. I humbly suggest that those ‘journalists’ who wrote about America invading Greenland probably knew they were writing complete nonsense. But they also knew such extreme articles would generate clicks. So they decided to knowingly produce utter garbage to protect their lousy careers. I further suspect that many/most MSM articles are hyperbolic trash churned out to get clicks and save careers. Though the mad battle for clicks is not limited to the MSM media. There’s much more garbage on the alternative media. I came across a YouTube video yesterday in which the presenter interviewed a self-appointed ‘medical expert’ who claimed that judging by what he saw of Trump’s public appearances, Trump would die in 2 to 4 months. The video may be right. But I suspect it is just clickbait garbage, though it did get a few hundred thousand views. So writing complete BS seems to be a lucrative activity for so many people who want us to take their pronouncements seriously. Here’s the blog I wrote about 10 days ago: Following the US raid on Venezuela and the arrest of Maduro, Trump has also reportedly doubled down on his claim that “the US wants Greenland”. This seems to have caused absolute panic amongst other NATO countries and their rulers are rushing around squawking like headless chickens (do headless chickens squawk?). Meanwhile the mainstream media vomits out endless bilge about how a US “invasion” of Greeneland could shatter NATO. And the Danish government beats its chest declaring boldly that Denmark’s ‘massive armed forces’ – about 20 soldiers who only work Monday to Friday from 09.30 to 16.30 and probably have about two rusty rifles to share between them – will defend Greenland against the evil Yankees. What a load of absolute bull’s manure! This is classic Trump ‘Art of the Deal‘. You decide what you want. You then make a completely unrealistic demand which is well in excess of what you really want – “I’m gonna invade Greenland”. Your opponent has a panicked reaction to that outlandish demand rather than having the intelligence to work out what you really want. Then you reach the compromise you always wanted. Trump can see the strategic and economic importance of Greenland. He probably wants security guarantees keeping Russia and Chinese influence out of Greenland. And when all the heat and noise about the supposed “invasion” of Greenland dies down, Trump will get what he wanted all along. My dog could have worked this out. But apparently this is well beyond the intellectual capabilities of our Trump-hating rulers and mainstream media. |
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