Category: Britain

Law / Britain / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

Jack Baud and the New Meaning of ‘Propaganda’: Sanctions, Speech and Power in Peacetime Europe

This article examines the EU sanctions imposed on Jack Baud, a former Swiss Army colonel, and compares them with the UK sanctions case of Graham Phillips. It argues that modern sanctions regimes increasingly classify speech as “propaganda” based on executive alignment rather than falsity or criminality, creating domestic coercive effects in peacetime and raising fundamental constitutional concerns about free expression, property rights and procedural safeguards.

Culture / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Fifth Floor, Christmas Day

The heating had been on long enough. Long enough to warm the walls. He switched it off and put his coat on. Outside, the cold was bitter

Law / Britain / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

What Losing Both Legs Is Worth Depends on Which Side of the Atlantic You’re On

Two construction workers suffer the same catastrophic accident and lose both legs. One is in Seattle, inside Washington State’s workers compensation system. The other is in Manchester, under Britain’s dual track of state benefits and civil liability. The difference is not sentiment or severity. It is legal design. One system buys certainty. The other prices fault.

World / Britain / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

The West Still Talks About Values. Power Now Belongs to Systems That Can Execute

Europe and Britain are discovering a hard truth: money and slogans do not manufacture shells, fix rail networks, or deliver armoured vehicles on time. In 2025, power is drifting toward systems that can execute, not those that can only announce. Values still matter, but without institutional delivery they turn into rhetoric and publics stop believing

Economics / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

What the City’s Debt Debate Forgets: Ordinary People Have Savings Too

A City-facing broadsheet warns that rising public debt will soon meet “market discipline”. What it ignores is a simple truth: ordinary people have savings too. When governments avoid hard fiscal choices, the costs are shifted quietly through inflation, fiscal drag, and repression. Debt sustainability is not arithmetic. It is about who pays, how visibly, and when.

Britain / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

Property Rights, Sanctions and the Abramovich Test for Britain

Britain’s push to force the release of £2.5bn from Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea sale tests a principle older than sanctions or war: that property rights in English law are protected from political seizure. The outcome will shape trust in London itself.

Britain / Finance / Russia

 by Jaffa Levy

When ‘As Safe as the Bank of England’ Stops Being True

Britain once sold trust to the world. That trust was forged in power, then refined into a services export: English law, City custody, and a reputation that money held here stayed safe from politics. The move from freezing Russian reserves to using, and possibly taking, them risks a slow credibility leak. In finance, leaks compound. The cost is drift, not drama.

Economics / Britain / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

The Frozen Assets Dilemma: Why the City of London Is Warning Against Using Russia’s Frozen Money

This capstone article, the fourth in Telegraph Online’s series on frozen Russian assets, explains why banks and financial institutions in the City of London are pushing back against plans to use frozen Russian state money to fund loans for Ukraine. The dispute is not about morality or support for Ukraine. It is about legal ownership, court enforceability, retaliation risk, and who pays if the plan triggers lawsuits or financial instability.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain’s New Migration Model: Fewer Brains, More Bills

Britain is cutting net migration by shutting down the very routes that pay for its public services. Skilled workers and foreign students are being pushed away, young British professionals are leaving, and the gap is filled by low wage labour and anonymous capital. This is not control of borders. It is the managed hollowing out of the tax base and skills base.

Economics / Britain / Europe / Russia

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe on a Death March to a War Economy

Europe is not being dragged into decline by fate. Its leaders are choosing an energy squeeze, a financial time bomb over frozen Russian assets, and subordination to United States tariffs and war demands, while pretending this is morality and strategy. The only sector with a clear future is the arms industry. Everyone else is being told to absorb the cost in silence.

World / Britain / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

America walks away while Ukraine bleeds and Europe pretends nothing has changed

Zelensky spent the day shuttling between Downing Street and Brussels begging for unity while Trump mocked him for not reading a peace plan that barely exists. Behind the stagecraft, Washington has written a strategy that pushes the war bill onto Europe and steps back. The fighting will end on Russian terms. The question is whether Europe will admit it in time.

Britain / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Tucker Carlson, George Galloway And Britain’s Security State Drift

George Galloway tells Tucker Carlson how he and his wife were stopped by counter terrorism police at Gatwick, told they were not under arrest yet not free to leave, questioned for hours about their political views and then released without charge. Legacy broadcasters downplayed the story. Online, millions view it as evidence that Britain’s security services now act with alarming impunity.

Britain / Economics

 by Jaffa Levy

When Britain Turns Trust into a Weapon, It Cuts Its Own Throat

Britain no longer lives from factories; it lives from contracts, custody and trust in London. That trust is now a sanctions weapon. From Venezuelan gold to Russian reserves and Arctic gas shipping, the United Kingdom is using its courts and insurers to punish enemies. Each strike hurts Moscow. It also teaches the rest of the world how to move money and ships without London.

Law / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain’s Courts Are Broken. The Government’s Cure Targets the Jury

Britain once sold trial by jury as proof that serious criminal justice belongs in the hands of ordinary citizens. Now ministers want to strip juries from a wide band of cases and blame them for a Crown Court backlog that years of cuts created. This Telegraph Online analysis tests whether the plan is a necessary response to crisis or a quiet transfer of power from the public to the state.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

The Information Cartel: How Britain’s Richest Shape What You Think

A small cluster of media groups and global platforms now acts as editor in chief of public reality in Britain. Three national newspaper groups control almost all print circulation, two chains dominate local titles, and a few foreign technology firms decide how news is found and funded. Together they translate extreme wealth at the top into quiet control over what citizens see, fear and forget.

Economics / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Rachel Reeves UK Budget 2025 : a critical view of the Autumn Budget 2025 and what it really means for Britain’s inequality

Rachel Reeves’s first Budget does not end Britain’s time as a polite tax haven, but it finally leans against the tide. Threshold freezes still squeeze workers, yet high value property and investment income are asked to pay more, and the two child limit is scrapped. For a country built around offshore money and domestic austerity, that is a small but real turn.

Business / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Crime, Access and Growth The Truth Behind the Oxford Street Fight

London is about to decide whether Oxford Street exists for traffic or for people. One residents society in Marylebone has been treated as the referee, yet it speaks for one of the richest corners of the city, not for the workers and visitors who keep the street alive. This piece tests its claims against evidence on crime, access and growth

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

How a Single Press Pass Became a Stress Test for British Democracy

A quiet email refusing a press pass at Westminster has turned into a test of how far Britain will tolerate scrutiny of its own power. Declassified UK, an investigative outlet focused on foreign affairs, was denied access while almost five hundred other journalists still roam the estate. Internal emails released under freedom of information laws point not to space constraints but unease with its standpoint,

Opinion / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

The Deal That Never Closed: RedBird, the Barclays and the Daily Telegraph

* Telegraph.com is completely independent from the Daily Telegraph * yet the fate of that newspaper now matters to anyone who cares about media power in Britain. This long read traces how a heavily indebted Barclay structure, Abu Dhabi linked financing, RedBird Capital and United Kingdom public interest law collided over the Daily Telegraph. It explains why the latest five hundred million pound bid has been withdrawn and why the real decision was made long before any formal refusal.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

The Tiger That Wasn’t There: A Story of Media and the Ghosts of Empire

When a leading London broadsheet claimed that North Koreans were “hunting tigers for food,” it exposed more than journalistic sloppiness. It revealed the desperation of Britain’s old media class to preserve a moral hierarchy that no longer exists. This essay traces how a false story about famine and wildlife became a metaphor for imperial nostalgia — and why the West’s fading press can no longer distinguish narrative from truth.

World / Britain / Germany / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

 New Nationalism: From Dresden to Doncaster to Dallas

Populist energy has moved from the street into the state. Alice Weidel in Germany and Nigel Farage in Britain are converting discontent into parliamentary power, while Tommy Robinson’s crowds still march without machinery. The same sentiment frustration with distant rule and collapsing trust now runs from Saxony to small-town England and deep into the American South.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Britain Feels So Bitterly Divided and Why the Explanations Are Wrong

YouTube embedded video under license. Uploaded by No Comment TV. Aerial and ground footage showing the crowd at the Tommy Robinson, mainly white working-class rally in central London. I read a strange syndicated piece...