The Education Secretary is right to highlight low educational attainment in white working class children. Across other ethnicities poor kids do less well than wealthier ones. But the disparity among whites is huge. And it is explained not by skin colour but by family structure 1/

Marriage rates among Chinese and Asian populations are high across all income groups. But among poor white populations, marriage rates have collapsed. 85% of high income white families are married compared to just 19% of low income white families. 2/ spectator.co.uk/article/forget…

Backbench Labour MPs seem to believe that the welfare state can continue to expand for eternity like the universe in the wake of the Big Bang. This is, in a word, insane. Britain's bloated welfare system is the cause of our economic and social malaise, not its cure. A🧵1/ More than 130 Labour MPs are threatening to vote against the Prime Minister's planned cuts to disability benefits. This is unsurprising; the Labour Party and the Welfare State are joined at the hip. 2/

In the UK abortion is legal until 24 weeks—double the EU average. But for pro-abortion MPs, this just isn’t enough. They want abortion until birth. And they’re using a rise in prosecutions that THEY CREATED to argue for the one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world 🧵1/ Next week, the Commons will vote on amendments, proposed by Labour MPs Stella Creasy and Tonia Antoniazzi, to the Crime and Policing Bill that seek to decriminalise abortion up to the moment of birth. 2/

Rayner says we need more social housing. But @PimlicoJournal claims problem is not lack of housing, but unfair allocation. In London, 48% of tenancies are held by someone not born in Britain, & 250 000 by someone not in work. So, what's the answer? A 🧵 1/ gbnews.com/opinion/angela… Britain's housing crisis is undeniable:
🏚️ 1.3 million households are on the social housing waiting list
🏘️ Fewer than 10,000 new council homes were built last year
📈 Private rents and house prices are soaring
But is building more the only answer? 2/

Even though confusion over single sex provisions is now settled, the Gender Recognition Act remains on statute. Individuals can still legally change the sex on their birth certificate, effectively rewriting history. A 🧵 on why we should repeal the GRA…
gbnews.com/opinion/woman-… No one is allowed to alter their place of birth or mother’s name on their birth certificate, so why should it be lawful to change one’s recorded sex? One of the principle reasons for introducing the GRA—to allow a transwoman (man) to remain married to a woman—is now redundant, 2/

Boomers reaped the rewards of liberalism. But Gen Z—fatherless, indebted, and brutalised by the internet—are liberalism’s collateral damage. Why don’t young adults vote Conservative? Perhaps because liberalism has left little for them conserve. 🧵1/
conservativehome.com/2025/04/02/mir… The conventional wisdom states Gen Z don’t vote Tory because of Britain’s housing crisis. Why support capitalism if you can’t get capital? Also, below-replacement birth rates over the last 50 years have shifted the burden of an ageing population onto the young. 2/

As predicted, Labour MPs are attempting to hijack the Crime Bill to decriminalise abortion up to birth. The government must learn from the US Democrats & recognise this would be a distracting, dishonest & unpopular move. 🧵 1/
Me ✍️ in @telegraph telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/0… Last month an Ipsos poll found that the top 3 priorities for US voters were economy, healthcare & immigration. But when respondents were asked to name what they believed to be the priorities of the Democratic Party, the 3 top answers were abortion, LGBT rights & climate change.2/

MPs who vote for Assisted Suicide will do so knowing that vulnerable people will die, frightened people will be coerced, suicide rates—assisted & otherwise—will increase, doctor-patient trust will be undermined & the State will kill its own citizens. 🧵 1/ gbnews.com/opinion/assist… Imagine your elderly mother has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Before the news even sinks in, her doctor suggests that she might end her life, and offers to help. In a few weeks, she is given a cocktail of lethal drugs, and dies. 2/

Trump has made clear that the US is no longer willing to act as Western guarantor. But European leaders are deluded if they think their commitments to replace American military support for Ukraine are anything more substantial than warm words. A 🧵 1/ conservativehome.com/2025/03/05/mir… On average, European countries spend 1.6 per cent of GDP on defence; even a doubling would see little impact for years. More importantly, European economies no headroom for an increase in defence expenditure on this scale. We are broke. 2/

Thatcher was an extraordinary leader. But Thatcherism is not the answer to the challenges we face today. Demand for a new conservative politics is rising, but it's a demand that, in the UK at least, no political party is yet able to supply...🧵1/ @GBNEWS gbnews.com/opinion/farage… The driving force of the new politics is a sense of economic and social injustice, a feeling that the established systems of economics, global markets and politics have favoured elites but left behind ordinary people, those who once built the foundations of this nation. 2/

This week, Labour MPs voted to allow schools to continue to keep sex education lessons secret from parents…why do those on the Left so often play into the hands of those who want to sexualise our kids? A 🧵1/ @NoSecretLessons @GBNEWS gbnews.com/opinion/school… As the controversial Schools Bill makes its way through Parliament, Conservative shadow education minister @NeilDotObrien laid an amendment that would’ve forced schools only to use teaching materials that are available for parents to view. But Government rejected the amendment.2/

“Women are highly evolved to feel fear and discomfort in the presence of men they don’t trust in vulnerable situations. Forcing a woman to suppress that essential survival instinct to protect a man from hurty feelings is frankly barbaric.” 🧵 1/ @GBNEWSgbnews.com/opinion/sandie… An astonishing Employment Tribunal taking place in Fife in Scotland this week is evidence of just how deeply gender madness is entrenched. The trial concerns the case of Mrs Sandie Peggie, an A&E nurse at Fife hospital, who objected to sharing the female staff changing room… 2/

Many in Britain are cheering as President Trump puts an end to the destructive wastefulness of ‘Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.’ But in the UK it’s going to be much tougher to loosen the grip of DEI—it’s been embedded in our law for nearly 20 years… 🧵 1/

gbnews.com/opinion/dei-di… Anyone who has worked in the public sector, set foot in a university or even filled in a medical form will know just how pervasive ‘DEI culture’ has become. 2/

When NHS offered only emergency care & limited number of treatments, a socialised, publicly funded model was fine. But now 40% of the NHS budget is spent on preventable disease, this model is no longer fair on those who take care of their health. A🧵 1/ gbnews.com/opinion/nhs-uk… Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, we repeatedly told ourselves that the NHS was the ‘envy of the world’. But Covid shattered those illusions. A
report published by the RCN has revealed how patients are now routinely treated on hospital corridors. 2/

The School’s Bill amendment is a smart move by Badenoch. Not only would it force Starmer to set up an inquiry into child rape gangs, it would also kill the Left’s disastrous plans for education. But will Labour MPs vote in the national interest? A 🧵 1/

gbnews.com/opinion/kemi-b… The ‘child rape gangs’ scandal has rocked Britain and has been the subject of wall-to-wall media coverage for over a week. Understandably, Labour MPs are under huge pressure from constituents, media and hopefully their own consciences to support Badenoch’s call for an inquiry. 2/

Much has been written about how a fear of undermining ‘multiculturalism’ allowed child rape gangs to continue for so long. But there were other factors too, including the normalisation of underage sex and false ideas about “child rights.” A 🧵 1/
@GBNEWS gbnews.com/opinion/groomi… Since the sexual revolution, our ideas about sexual ethics have largely been reduced to the presence of absence of “consent”. This is certainly what is taught in schools in sex education. But this inadequate ‘moral framework’ has fundamentally undermined child safeguarding…2/

“Banning incest is not only about preventing birth defects; it’s to stop sexual abuse…if it’s acceptable for men to see their children, stepchildren & siblings as sexual partners then how & where can women & children be safe?” A🧵1/

Me ✍️ for @spectator spectator.co.uk/article/taboos… Last week on @GBNEWS, Charles Amos argued against a ban on cousin marriage on the basis that the State shouldn’t interfere in such matters. He said the same should apply to sibling marriage, and implied father-daughter sex should also not be off limits. 2/

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Last week, I wrote for @GBNEWS about the impressive success of Reform UK, but observed that a few challenges remain if the Party is serious about becoming a contender for government. The reaction was revealing! A 🧵1/ gbnews.com/opinion/reform… Senior members of the Reform Party responded to the article and the reasonable questions it posed not with measured answers or attempts to explain, but with personal attack. 2/

The meteoric rise of Reform UK is a problem for both Labour & the Conservatives. But there are many hurdles ahead for Reform, including the challenge of defining a coherent political philosophy & questions about the influence of Elon Musk. A🧵1/
gbnews.com/opinion/reform… The more that Farage’s Party is seen as a serious prospect for Government, the more scrutiny it will face, scrutiny not just of candidates but of policy. Until recently Reform has been seen as a party of protest. 2/

The Prime Minister says he wants 75% of four-year-olds to be 'school ready'. He's right to highlight the issue: Britain faces a child development crisis that will have severe social & economic repercussions. So what's happening to our kids? A 🧵1/ @GBNEWS
gbnews.com/opinion/child-… When a child starts school at age 4, he is expected to be able to respond to & obey simple instructions, communicate verbally with others, put on coats & shoes independently, and be toilet trained. These are normal developmental expectations that the majority should reach. 2/

Our preoccupation with identity politics has hidden from view one group of people who are genuinely and seriously disadvantaged—boys and young men.

Every society needs strong and confident men, so how can we restore hope to Britain’s Lost Boys?
A 🧵 1/ bit.ly/4g5vVKa The statistics are stark. Boys are falling behind girls in every stage of education, from nursery to Uni. Boys are twice as likely to be expelled from school. 96% of prisoners are men. Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50. Young men earn less than their female peers. 2/