More than a million migrants benefited from the universal credit welfare scheme in Britain at a cost to the taxpayer of £7.6 billion in 2023 alone, an analysis of official data has found.
Author: Blazingcatfur
LILLEY: PM Carney has it all wrong with industrial carbon tax
The carbon tax will still be an issue in the coming election. It’s a topic both Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre were talking about Monday.
While Conservative Leader Poilievre was promising to scrap the industrial carbon tax, Prime Minister Carney was defending it as a necessity on his trip to Europe.
MONSTER Bird Flu Update: Unprecedented Mammal-to-Mammal Transmission Confirmed
We’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop for a couple of years at this point since the bird flu narrative first ramped up post-COVID.
Mammal-to-mammal gain-of function — the newfound ability to transmit between mammals — has always seemed inevitable, given that the biomedical security state is literally funding gain-of-function research on viruses in clandestine labs all over the world, fully immune from oversight.
Trump and Putin agree to an immediate ceasefire for energy and infrastructure in Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a lengthy call Tuesday to an immediate pause in strikes against energy and infrastructure targets in the Ukraine war, but the Russian leader stopped short of backing a broader 30-day pause in fighting that the U.S. administration is pressing for.
The White House described it as the first step in a “movement to peace” it hopes will eventually include a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea and a full and lasting end to the fighting.
Carson Jerema: Mark Carney is acting like a normal PM. He’s not
And we thought Justin Trudeau was a sanctimonious autocrat who found dealing with Parliament too tiresome.
This insane story about ‘gay babies’ proves that woke isn’t dead
The next time someone blithely assures you that “woke is over” now Donald Trump is back, politely direct his or her attention to the following story. In the US state of New Jersey, hospitals have been giving new parents a questionnaire to fill in.
And this questionnaire asks them to specify their newborn baby’s sexuality.
Carney says Canada can stand up for its own sovereignty as European trip wraps up … In other words Carney won no allies
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada can stand up for its own sovereignty in response to annexation talk from the U.S. administration as he wrapped up his first international trip.
Carney met with King Charles and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Monday evening after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris earlier in the day.
Speaking to reporters after his meeting with Starmer, Carney was asked if he was concerned that allies should be more forceful in defending Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to insist the country become the 51st state.
Conor McGregor anti-immigration rant in White House condemned by Irish PM
Ireland’s taoiseach has denounced anti-immigration comments made by Conor McGregor as the MMA fighter visited the White House before a St Patrick’s Day meeting with Donald Trump.
McGregor said “Ireland is on the cusp of losing its Irishness” and that an “illegal immigration racket” was “running ravage on the country”.
Last week, Donald Trump singled out “Conor” – who last year was found liable for sexual assault after a civil trial – as one of his favourite Irish people.
Mark Carney sent daughter to discredited U.K. Tavistock Transgender Clinic
BREAKING: Mark Carney sent daughter to discredited U.K. Tavistock Transgender Clinic https://t.co/oZhHigDx5l
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) March 17, 2025
‘End of an era’: Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies
The last surviving Battle of Britain pilot, John “Paddy” Hemingway, has died at the age of 105.
Mr Hemingway, who was originally from Dublin, joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a teenager before World War Two.
At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.
Could Trump’s bullying make Canada the new Cuba?
The United States is treating Canada only a little better than it treats Cuba.
The point is not that Canada and Cuba are similar countries; they are patently not. Rather, it is to note that the U.S. government has chosen purposefully to treat Canada, a vibrant multiparty democracy and the world’s ninth-largest economy, in a similar way.
I thought we already were?
US astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams are finally headed back to Earth after 9 months stranded in space
Commencing countdown, engines on …
Elon Musk has claimed that plans to bring Wilmore and Williams back earlier were shelved by former President Joe Biden and that the mission had been marred by political mudslinging.
US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams finally departed from the International Space Station early Tuesday to begin their long-awaited journey back home after spending more than nine months stuck in space.
Poilievre takes shot at Carney’s record, saying he failed at Bank of England
Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Mark Carney should have been fired when he was governor of the Bank of England, arguing that the new Canadian prime minister’s economic record isn’t as strong as he presents it.
Poilievre, speaking to reporters hours after Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new leader, said Carney had acted as an “unreliable boyfriend” while leading the central bank from 2013 to 2020. That’s a reference to a quote from British lawmaker Pat McFadden, who criticized Carney over a decade ago for not following through after signalling plans to hike interest rates.
Nasty.
Tense exchange between Carney and the Globe's Stephanie Levitz over his blind trust
"We understand that you have now placed your assets in a blind trust. So you don't know what's happening to them going forward, but you knew what they were going into that blind trust. So what… pic.twitter.com/o69DegKpXF
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 17, 2025
h/t Mauser
Trump’s College Crackdown: It’s Their Own Fault
The federal government has some “legitimate concerns,” said Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong last week, after the Trump administration announced the withdrawal of $400 million in federal grants because, it claimed, Columbia had not addressed rampant anti-Semitism on its campus. Armstrong’s words suggest that Columbia received the message. But have other institutions of higher education?
WARMINGTON: Chow lights match that could burn down Toronto’s economy
It’s only fitting Mayor Olivia Chow chose Fire Station 334 to announce Toronto’s economy could soon be set ablaze as a result of her retaliation to President Donald Trump’s tariff war.
And just to be sure it becomes an economic inferno, she threw extra accelerant on the already hot coals.