Putin boat in
NATO leaders met yesterday to discuss global threats, including from Russia and China.
Yet there’s one massive security disaster that the British Government has been sleep-walking into.
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Suspected terrorists, sex offenders and drug gang leaders have all arrived here illegally on small boats.
And now security chiefs fear hostile states are taking advantage of Britain’s inability to protect its own borders to sow division.
The Left likes to dismiss the seriousness of illegal migrant crossings.
Yet there is now mounting evidence that dark forces abroad want to weaponise the epic failure of our soft touch system to unpick the fabric of our society.
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Some illegal migrants are now effectively state-sponsored by rogue regimes like Russia and Iran, whose agents have provided support and false papers.
The Home Office insists it is aware of the problem.
But until a proper way is found to stop the boats, how can ministers ever be sure we are safe?
Project beer
ON the day he entered Number 10, Sir Keir Starmer promised to “tread more lightly” on the lives of voters.
How does he square that with the idea of draconian restrictions on booze ads?
You’d think Labour’s fun police would have learned their lesson after the ban on smoking in pub gardens went up in a flame of public outrage.
Instead, the constant desire to interfere suggests we will never be free of the Nanny-knows-best attitude which infects our public health bodies.
Labour now finds itself in the bizarre position of wanting to give the vote to 16-year-olds — yet barring anyone over 18 from watching an advert for lager online, or before 9pm on TV.
What on earth will they consider next? A ban on eating sausages? A crackdown on cake?
Life in Britain should be about freedom and choice.
This latest crazy plan is enough to drive anyone to drink.
Steely resolve
IT’S a current madness that in the dash to Net Zero, Britain bans new drilling for fossil fuels while China burns billions of tons of coal to make cheap steel for wind turbines — which it then sells to us.
But welcome changes now mean the Chinese can be cut out of Government contracts in critical areas of national security.
That’s not only a major boost for British steel and other UK firms.
It’s also a vital step towards keeping one of our biggest security threats at arm’s length.
