The Mighty One.

 

Birdie.

 

Vote Green and You Will Deserve Any Nonsense Which Comes Your Way!

 

Party leader Zack Polanski has vowed to abolish all private landlords, tax the rich and bring in aggressive rent controls. But his candidate, Hannah Spencer, 34, has amassed a £1.2million property empire - and offered tips on how to rip off first-time homeowners, flip properties and intimidate buyers. She has boasted on mumsnet , urging sellers to avoid first-time buyers because they are usually 'gifted money from a family member… who make sure they're getting a good deal'. Ms Spencer, the Greens' candidate for Manchester mayor in 2024, has criticised second homeowners for 'hoarding' properties and accused struggling landlords of pulling a 'woe is me act'. But Ms Spencer appears to be one of those second homeowners herself.

The Blair Catastrophe Was So Easy To Predict. Well, I Did! The Blogger.

 

• Kemi Badenoch

Young people have been stitched up by Blair’s university con.

New Labour pushed for a 50 per cent target for school leavers. It was achieved by creating loads of useless courses

Kemi Badenoch

21 February 2026 8:05pm GMT

The architect of the Blairite settlement, speaking at the University of Ulster in 2016 Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

During my leadership campaign, someone asked me to summarise my economic objectives in one sentence. I replied: “To deliver a high-growth, low-immigration economy.”

Right now, Britain has the opposite: a low-growth, high-immigration economy. It’s young people who are paying the price.

That’s why we’re launching our New Deal for Young People. We’re the only party that’s even thinking about them, because we understand that our economic and cultural problems are intertwined. You can’t solve one without the other.

Reform UK has tried to copy a lot of our immigration policy without doing the difficult thinking. They agree with us that deporting people who should not be here is a priority. But Conservatives know that alone does not turn Britain into a high-growth economy. It reduces public spending, it does not increase productivity – but our New Deal for Young People will.

The blame for our productivity problem can be laid at the feet of the Blairite settlement. For too long, politics has been run as if we’re still in the late 1990s.

Politicians hoping the world would stay the same: stable graduate jobs, stable career ladders, stable institutions, and a conveyor belt from school to university to a middle-class life. Blair pushed for 50 per cent of young people to go to university, and the Oxbridge-educated political class was too embarrassed to say no for fear of looking like hypocrites.

We didn’t get a nation of engineers and mathematicians. We hit the target by creating loads of useless courses. The result is obvious: young people loaded with debt and employers complaining about basic skills gaps. And while standards fell, parts of our university system started feeding the cultural rot.

You cannot build a high-growth economy on institutions that train young people to distrust reality and sneer at the society they are meant to inherit. Our New Deal for Young People is going to scrap the pointless courses, provide better offers and tackle the insidious debt trap. I started my degree in 1999, not long after tuition fees had been introduced.

I am horrified at what graduates today are dealing with, and this is one of the reasons millions of young people feel they’ve been stitched up. Plan 2 student loans, the system most people who started university from 2012 to 2023 are on, increasingly feel like a scam.

Under Plan 2, the interest on your loan is 3 per cent above inflation, so your loan can grow so fast that you can be paying the appropriate amount every month yet see the balance go up. It’s an infuriating situation – you’re paying money back, but every time you look at the outstanding amount, it’s rising. It just isn’t fair.In 2012, when the policy came in, inflation and interest rates were low. It needs to be changed now.

Jeremiah 2. How Often The Chosen People of God Followed Idols.

 5 This is what the Lord says:

“What fault did your ancestors find in me,
    that they strayed so far from me?
They followed worthless idols
    and became worthless themselves.
6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord,
    who brought us up out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness,
    through a land of deserts and ravines,
a land of drought and utter darkness,
    a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
7 I brought you into a fertile land
    to eat its fruit and rich produce.
But you came and defiled my land
    and made my inheritance detestable.

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Hmm.

 New research cast doubts on evidence submitted to help free Lucy Letby.

New research cast doubts on evidence submitted to help free Lucy Letby Liz Hull Lucy Letby's defence team say new medical evidence has been submitted to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in...

So. Is Letby right to demand a retrial?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15573959/research-doubts-medical-experts-Lucy-Letby-free.html

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Macron - I Despair.

Macron: Meloni ‘Should Not Comment’ on Beating Death of Conservative Student Quentin Deranque.

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Christian K. Caruzo

20 Feb 2026

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to stop commenting on the death of conservative university student Quentin Deranque.

The 23-year-old Catholic activist was killed last week during an anti-mass immigration protest in Lyon in an alleged act of Antifa violence.

French Parliamentary Assistant Accused of Involvement in Antifa Killing Kurt Zindulka A parliamentary assistant has been barred from the French National Assembly after an alleged Antifa killing of a...

As Breitbart News reported, the young man’s death sparked widespread condemnation of far-left violence. French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, said on Sunday that “clearly it was the far left was behind it.”  DM.

Second Chances?

Why I disagree that God is the God of 'second chances.'

By Marlon De Blasio

Op-ed contributor Saturday, February 21, 2026

God desires to make friends with people, even if they have offended Him.

When the first humans transgressed, God immediately reached out and inquired, “where are you” (Gen. 3:9)? Jesus and the apostles emphasized that God always dealt personally, and they noted Him as the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob (Mark 12:26; Acts 7:32). Particularly, Abraham “was called a friend of God” (James 2:23).

God has always taken personal interest in people, “calling as at other times, Samuel, Samuel” (1 Sam. 3:10). So God continues to invite people “to come now and let us reason together ... though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (Is. 1:18).

Surely, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). Yet God is gracious, and I believe that the beauty of His forgiveness can continue to be manifested in people.

I don’t need to convince anyone of the universal fact that people experience moral wrongdoing, actively and passively. It’s not that we are made to feel guilty by someone’s criterion, or by some moral theory or even a religious dogma, but that we are inherently wired with a conscience that experiences undeniable right and wrong. Humans “show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness” (Rom. 2:15). It’s interesting how cultural thought is always ready to finger-point the moral shortcomings of people, while being dismissive of the implicit appeal to objective moral law. Even when theorists speculate that people may be genetically predisposed to certain immoral behavior, the moral law is invoked to identify what is objectively immoral.

So why should it be incredulous that in a world of objective moral brokenness God can remove a person’s sins and create redemptive beauty? What’s so strange about it? Perhaps it’s really about a twisted belief that repentance will result in doing less life, whereas His grace actually provides new beginnings and genuine fulfillment. As the distinguished Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. Armand Nicholi, wrote about God’s grace, “I know that he always offers forgiveness followed by the opportunity and the resources to start again.” [1] Nicholi’s essay unpacked psychologically how Christ provides the inner “resources” that fulfill the beauty God intended.

Sin causes emotional weight, and its removal by God’s forgiveness is characterized by inward peace; peace which is not a temporary or therapeutic fix. Neither is this peace a human fabrication, precisely because it doesn’t originate from any human effort or initiative. The American deep Christian thinker, Jonathan Edwards, explained in his Religious Affections: “These are principles which are of a new and spiritual nature, vastly nobler and more excellent than all that is in natural man.”[2] The power of God’s grace is applied by His Spirit and the repentant experience a transition from the heavy burden of sin to the inward peace of forgiveness.

I will never forget the first Sunday that I attended church as a Christian. I returned home with this beautiful sense of peace and emotional lightness that my burden of sin was removed by Jesus. Like the feeling one gets when carrying heavy luggage and then putting it down to relax at a vacation resort. What John Bunyan’s Christian said rhetorically in 1678 when encountering God’s grace has remained relevant: “Must here the Burden fall from off my back? Must here the strings that bound it to me crack? Blest Cross!” [3] Indeed, the experience of God’s forgiveness has transcended time, cultures, and persevered over philosophical and psychological oppositions throughout history.

It's also beautiful how God’s work of grace strengthens the repentant to forgive themselves, for remorse can be burdensome. C. S. Lewis aptly commented in a personal letter to a friend, “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” [4]

I remember as a young Christian attending a Bible study where I learned for the first time that the great Apostle Paul was formerly Saul of Tarsus, who persecuted Christians. I honestly couldn’t believe it. Then I realized that if Paul authored all of those inspired letters and taught the world about personal peace with God, then he must have surely forgiven himself. I then took great encouragement and completely forgave myself. When we are at peace with God and ourselves, it’s also much easier to forgive others.

Finally, the beauty of God’s forgiveness is that it’s absolutely free. “Thanks be to God,” exclaimed Paul, “for his inexpressible gift” (2 Cor. 9:15)! So why is God so generous? What’s the catch? What’s in it for Him? Nothing at all. In fact, it’s expressive of how much He loves us unconditionally.

Paul explained, “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). God desires that we be regenerated and walk in the path He intended for us, “for to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace” (Rom. 8:6).

I disagree, however, that God is the God of “second chances,” because I believe that He is the God of innumerable chances, longsuffering and of great mercy. So even in this chaotic and rebellious world people are welcome to experience the beauty of knowing that “as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us” (Ps. 103:12). CP.

Jeremiah 1:5.

 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,

    before you were born I set you apart;
    I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”