He is correct here. We need to wake up, now. All of us.

When people ask me for advice on standing for election, the first thing I say is “Don’t do it unless you have a purpose. If you think being an MP will be fun, you’ll soon be disabused. But if are working towards a goal, you’ll be able to shrug off all the insults and inconveniences.” Al Carns is a good example of someone who has gone into politics with a purpose. You don’t lightly step away from commanding the SBS or turn down a senior one-star field appointment. His purpose is plain enough: he wants to reverse the decades-long downgrading of our Armed Forces. Some MPs will respect his integrity; others will resent the mirror that he holds up to their own motives. We’ll find out soon enough which response is more common.

Disabling Fable 5 and other models for foreigners is not a misunderstanding or a mistake, it’s the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons. With high energy costs and the emphasis on safety not opportunity Britain’s response has been to build the brake cutting ourselves off from the future and tied ourselves to the past. We cannot continue like this and remain sovereign.

You are allowed to feel lucky to be British. People seem to forget this. The accent that somehow gets you served first abroad. Countryside that looks like it was painted by someone quietly showing off. A proper pub at the end of a wet walk. The shipping forecast read out every night to a nation that is, for the most part, not at sea. But there is one blessing that never makes the list, and it never makes the list because the people compiling the list have spent a decade being told it is a problem to be managed rather than a gift to be counted. British livestock farming. Start with welfare. Britain sits near the very top of the global table for animal welfare law, level with Sweden and Austria, and ahead of every other major economy on earth. No country scores full marks, but nobody scores higher than we do. The animal that becomes your Sunday roast was made insensible before it knew a single thing was wrong, on a holding you could trace by the number printed on the label. There are corners of the world where none of that is true. We are not one of them. Then the self-sufficiency, which is the part the net zero crowd would prefer you never sat down and worked out. Britain is over 100% self-sufficient in lamb. We grow more than we eat and sell the surplus abroad. We are around 80% self-sufficient in beef, and very nearly self-sufficient in the milk in your tea. Now look at fresh vegetables, where we manage barely half of what we get through, the lowest figure since records began. The most resilient, most homegrown, least import-dependent food this entire country produces is the exact food we are being lectured to give up. Sit with that one. It does not get any less strange the longer you stare at it. And none of it is luck of the draw. It is the land itself. Britain was built, by rain and rock and ten thousand years of weather, to grow grass and very little else across most of its surface. You cannot put wheat on a Welsh hillside or a Cumbrian fell. You can put a cow on it, or a sheep, and stand back, and in return some of the most marginal farmland in Europe quietly turns out some of the finest red meat and dairy on the planet. The climate that ruins your barbecue is the same climate that grows the grass that feeds the herd that feeds you. So here is the bit they leave out of the documentary. You live in a country with the highest welfare standards, the shortest supply chains, the most suitable land, and a thousand-year head start, and you are being asked to feel guilty about eating the produce of all of it while you wait for an avocado to be flown in from a drained valley in Mexico. So don't feel guilty. Feel lucky, and then go and put your money where your good fortune already is. Eat British.

Sums up this Government perfectly .. Most of them have never been to a farm 🐑 …

The Labour government lost two high calibre ministers yesterday over their abject failure to fund Defence properly…putting the nation at risk. But don’t worry, today, Starmer and Reeves have found £4.5billion for … drumroll please … zebra crossings… 🤦

Lord Robertson and John Healey recognise this moment for what it is. Pivotal for our national resilience and defence with devastating consequences if we fail to modernise and rearm. Thank you John. Country before party.

BREAKING: The Speaker of the House of Commons was furious to hear that the Government’s long awaited Defence Review is planned to be snuck out on a Friday when the House isn’t sitting. This can only herald bad news for our nation’s defence. Sir Lindsay Hoyle has long been a powerful advocate for the Armed Forces from the first day he entered Parliament. He said he would be "appalled" to see the plan announced without a statement to the Commons first and makes a direct appeal to No10: "That would be an utter disgrace and an utter kick in the face to members of this House.” It would also be the highest breach of standing orders and an act of cowardice.

Extreme violence is being normalised, with young boys being served up violent content on social media. We can’t just sit back & allow the next generation to become desensitised to it. The day after Charlie Kirk’s murder, I visited a school & every child had seen footage of his death without seeking it out. This is horrific. The PM needs to get on with a ban to help protect childhood.

A child’s first 1001 days - pregnancy to age two, are critical in laying their life’s foundations. Winning the PMB was an enormous privilege. I want to unite Parliament around a world-first Bill to recognise this, and enshrine support for the 1001 critical days in law. 🧵 1/6

Tonight I went to see Kemi Badenoch being interviewed by the Speccy’s Tim Shipman. For those of you who think she’s washed up, think again - thoughtful, strong, resolute, likeable with workable and properly costed policies. She has work to do but is on@the case!

I have spent my political career fighting against identity politics when it came from Labour, Lib Dems, or the SNP, and I will do exactly the same against identity politics when it comes from Reform UK. The answer to Black Lives Matter is not a White Lives Matter born of the same racial grievance. To fix this the Conservatives will stand up for the silent majority who want order, fairness, common sense, and one law for everyone.

Given the continuing inability of Iran and the US to re open sea lanes for commerce, what plans does the UK government have to help secure reliable supplies of fertiliser and oil products? Why no plans to produce more at home?

A fairer way of putting it is that ‘Labour’s the problem’. Chef Tom explains all the issues which Labour has caused to hospitality with tax rises, NI hikes, business rate increases, above inflation wage hikes, new packaging taxes and much more. #shortmemories #celebendorsement

I've added my signature to this Early Day Motion, tabled by @SorchaEastwood, calling for a VAT cut to support hospitality businesses. ✂️ #VATsTheProblem @UKHofficial @beerandpub

Today on #WorldOceansDay2026, French Polynesia has just made one of the biggest ever commitments to protect our ocean.   President Moetai Brotherson  @Moetai1 has announced full protection for over half a million square KMs of ocean. It is an area that encompasses some of the South Pacific’s most pristine marine ecosystems, including critical habitats for migratory whales, sharks, tuna, all manner of seabirds and deep-sea species.   This brings French Polynesia's fully protected waters to 30% of its waters – an example for all the world to follow   Massive congrats @ thanks to @Moetai1 & to all the communities across the islands who have worked so hard to make this happen

I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. Everyone matters. Henry Nowak matters.

Well, Zia, I definitely consider myself unemployable, but you tend to be when you’ve built businesses from scratch and sold them - including one with 220 offices around the country employing 1000 people. Here are some of the many others with interesting, relevant real-world backgrounds: Business Andrew Griffith (Arundel and South Downs): Was chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Sky, the youngest finance director in the FTSE 100 at the time, selling shares worth around £17 million when Comcast bought the company. Kemi Badenoch (North West Essex): Worked at McDonald’s at 16 after arriving from Nigeria with £100, then trained as a software engineer before moving into banking at Coutts, The Spectator and on to lead the party. James Cartlidge (South Suffolk): Founded the shared ownership property portal Share to Buy and is now Shadow Defence Secretary. Mel Stride (Central Devon): Founded Venture Marketing Group in 1987, a trade exhibitions, conferences and publishing company - is now Shadow Chancellor. Chris Philp (Croydon South): Started at McKinsey before becoming a serial entrepreneur, founding wholesale distributor Blueheath and co-founding the property finance firm Pluto Capital. Jeremy Hunt (Godalming and Ash): Co-founded the educational publisher Hotcourses after teaching English in Japan, selling it for a reported £14 million in 2017. Military Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling): Served as an intelligence officer across Iraq and Afghanistan, earned an MBE and helped set up the National Security Council of Afghanistan. Lincoln Jopp (Spelthorne): A Scots Guards Colonel awarded the Military Cross after being shot and wounded saving lives during a coup in Sierra Leone, who later became a pensions business COO. Medicine Neil Shastri-Hurst (Solihull West and Shirley): Was a surgeon and a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps before retraining as a healthcare barrister, spanning medicine, military and law. Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham): A consultant paediatrician who has continued doing NHS shifts alongside her work as Shadow Health Minister. Luke Evans (Hinckley and Bosworth): A former GP. Kieran Mullan (Bexhill and Battle): A medical doctor who grew up in social housing and is now Shadow Justice Minister. Ben Spencer (Runnymede and Weybridge): Trained as a psychiatrist before politics and now serves as Shadow Science, Innovation and Technology Minister. The list goes on.

The OBR forecast as Conservatives left office was for 2026 2% UK GDP growth, unemployment 4.2% and inflation 1.9% . After Labour’s tax rises they now forecast just 1.1% UK growth, unemployment up at 5.3% and inflation up at 2.3% for 2026.

You can’t actually take the credit. Most of the fall in legal immigration is due to a cut in visas introduced by Rishi Sunak. Even @BBCNews says so.