Kemi Badenoch tells Sky’s @BethRigby she rejects "rhetoric" that could make her mixed-race children feel they're "not a part of this country" as she responds to Reform MP Suella Braverman's controversial comments saying she does not consider herself English. 'I am not interested in this endless conversation of trying to split people into lots of boxes,' the Conservative leader says. 📺 trib.al/VvTePue

“Racism” is a made-up word used by the enemies of Western civilisation to pathologise preference for one’s own nation - an instinct as natural, normal, and Christian as preference for one’s own family. At least out-and-out Leftists tell you what they believe. Conservatives like Tim Stanley cannot help but disguise their liberalism in the language of patriotism and faith. That is why they are the worst enemies of all.

Greens for Palestine, who proposed the motion that Zionism is racism, tell #TimesRadio that if a person is a Zionist, they aren’t a racist as it relates to disciplinary matters. “Nobody is labelling any individual here.” @ProducerOllie

ECB will grant NOCs for English players to play in the Afghanistan Premier League in Dec-Jan (subject to ICC approval) despite refusal to play Afghanistan in bilateral series Pope, Vince, Roy, Moeen among those registered for October's draft @cricinfo cricinfo.com/story/england-p…

The original sin of Brexit was not allowing Vote Leave to own the project after victory. In wrestling power from the people who won the referendum, insane internal machinations within the Parliamentary Conservative Party prevented those who campaigned for the outcome from delivering that outcome. From the start the whole project was decapitated. And so here we are now, ten years on, having repealed precious little EU law, pursuing no supply side reform, indeed still building a £125m bat tunnel in order that HS2 abide by the retained EU Habitats Directive. For the best part of a decade the political class stole the victory from the people. And now they have the temerity to say their own failure is actually the fault of the people for wanting an independent country.

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Exclusive: Hundreds of thousands of young people with mild ADHD, anxiety and depression should be given immediate support instead of being left to languish on NHS waiting lists and becoming “trapped in the benefits system”, a government review will recommend Alan Milburn, the former Labour health secretary who is leading a review into youth unemployment, will recommend next month that people with lower levels of need should be given counselling services or online support instead of waiting for months or even years for a formal diagnosis He told The Times that offering immediate help for people with mild conditions would reduce NHS waiting lists for people with more severe conditions who needed more intensive support and interventions. It would also help to end the “vicious cycle” of milder mental health problems being exacerbated by long waits and the fact that people are not in work The report will say that this change in approach should be backed up by a maximum waiting time for access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), which assess and treat people up to the age of 18. Campaigners have long argued that it is unfair that the NHS has set demanding targets to reduce waiting times for physical health conditions but not for mental health The number of children with a referral to mental health services reached over a million in 2024-25, almost double the 564,000 in 2018-19, and 35 per cent were still waiting for treatment at the end of the year and more than 60,000 had been waiting more than two years One in five of those who are not in education, training or employment now cite a mental health condition as their primary health condition, more than double the rate of a decade ago Milburn told The Times: “Too many young people with more mild mental health problems are needlessly stuck on an NHS waiting list often seeking a diagnosis “While they are waiting too many end up not working and then end up trapped in the benefits system. It becomes a vicious cycle. That’s bad for them because there is clear evidence of the beneficial impact of employment on people’s mental health “But it is also bad for people with more severe conditions, who need the kind of intensive treatment and support the NHS can provide. They risk having to wait longer on lengthening waiting list. “The evidence demonstrates that young people with milder or emerging conditions would be far better off getting counselling services in their community or online support “This would mean that more intensive treatment can be focused on people who could most benefit from it. It would enable the government to set a maximum waiting time for CAMHS services.” thetimes.com/article/00250f4…