Macron gets it. If you allow Russia to change borders by force, you basically throw away all the progress made in international relations since 1945 and go back to the laws of the jungle

Portraying every migrant as a sex pest, whipping up protest mobs, thrilling at the potential for ethnic violence, pretending that whites are dealt with more harshly by courts: it’s untrue and irresponsible says Danny Finkelstein times-comment.com/victimhood

Dominic Grieve, "I think the ECHR is really peripheral to the issue of asylum seekers.. It's the Refugee Convention which underpins the way we process asylum applications" "By leaving the European Union some of our leverage on this is lost" #C4News

And so the paper of law and order, the Daily Mail, like the Tory leadership, seeks to turn Lucy Connolly into a people’s hero… we sink, day by day, towards a national nastiness and hate which is being normalised by people who should know better.

Well said (((Dan Hodges))). We are facing a concerted effort at conspiracy and myth building. The facts are important

Well said. I am a Conservative too. We could add Wolf Hall, The Night Manager, Line of Duty, David Attenborough's series' and The Proms, Radios 3 and 4.

Vandalism showing shocking disrespect for our national flag. Our flag deserve respect and not to be used in a way that politicises it or creates disunity

This is insane and just wrong. You attribute corruption and 'activism' to anyone with whose opinions and values you happen to disagree. Stop seeking to damage our institutions which are one of the things that make Britain quietly great!

Bravo David - at last some sense and fact-based commentary from a leading Conservative

In other words you want to politicise the Civil Service rather than have officials who obey the law and serve the government of the day - whether they personally support them or not.

Fair comment on judges or incitement? The Daily Mail is at it again. Watch how judges and religious leaders, Bishops included, are targeted as "enemies of the people.."

good to see some progress in what is otherwise a pretty abject situation

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Asylum applications 2024 Germany 237,314 Spain 165,767 Italy 158,867 France 158,730 UK 108,138 Guess which country's media & politicians day in, day out stoke the "they're all coming here" narrative while complaining the others should "step up" to help it "control its borders"

Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.

It isn't really their job to talk up Britain - whereas it should have been yours.

She was massively over-promoted. She should never have served in Cabinet

What absolute tosh. Britain has significant problems but we are a decent country with strong values and institutions. We do not need bullying ethno-nationalists from the US to 'save us'.

So today ReformUK platformed an antivaccine conspiracy theorist, a lady who pled guilty to inciting people to burn down a migrant hotel, had an elected mayor butcher the national anthem, and whose leader wants sanctions imposed on his own country. Indeed, the party of patriotism.

How entirely undeserved