Tom Batten, Author at Homeland Party

Nottingham murderer Valdo Calocane gets diminished responsibility.

Tom Batten / News / 25 January 2024 / Crime, England, Migration, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Valdo Calocane, the Nottingham murderer of Ian Coates, 65, Barnaby Webber, 19, and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, 19, has had his pleas of manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility accepted at court on Tuesday. Back in June 2023, Calocane repeatedly stabbed two young University of Nottingham students as they were walking back to their student accommodation. Around an […]

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UK’s steel industry in its death throes

Tom Batten / News / 20 January 2024 / Economy, Opinion, Steel, Wales

“Today is incredibly difficult for Wales,” says the Welsh Conservative leader in the Senedd Andrew RT Davies. It isn’t every day you witness a Tory being truthful. In case you missed the story, which is ongoing, Tata Steel has confirmed it is cutting 2,800 jobs across the UK, with the bulk expected to be at

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Potholes and the state of UK roads

Tom Batten / News / 18 January 2024 / England, Infrastructure, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

No matter where you reside in the UK, you’ve most likely witnessed the abundance of potholes springing up left, right and centre if you drive. You’d be wrong if you thought it was just a problem local to your neck of the woods. I counted twelve of them only yesterday during a quick ten-minute trip

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Hotel to start removing asylum seekers three months earlier than planned.

Tom Batten / News / 28 December 2023 / England, Migration, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

As 2023 draws to a close, we’re pleased to end the year with some positive news, which bodes well for 2024. A hotel housing asylum seekers in Standish has closed three months earlier than planned. Kiley Court Hotel in Wigan was only designated as a spot to house migrants in August, but uproar from local

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City of York Council to ‘make savings elsewhere’ to improve ethnic diversity of workforce.

Tom Batten / News / 21 December 2023 / Community Politics, Discrimination, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Here’s a quick test: if you were a city council leader, how would you manage your spending across said council? Take some time to think, and don’t worry, there’s no definitive answer. You could adopt a policy of meritocracy, ensuring that the best person was appointed to each job, offsetting the loss of time and

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Almost 300 migrants crossed the English Channel in one day.

Tom Batten / News / 17 December 2023 / England, Migration, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

It almost feels like flogging a dead horse when writing about the migrant crisis. Such is the extent that we’ve covered the topic. But such a problem warrants continual attention, especially when we get headlines like the above. Surprisingly, it’s the BBC who have broken this story, who are usually less than candid on the

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More solar farms earmarked in Derbyshire

Tom Batten / News / 12 December 2023 / East Midlands, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

We have more reports of solar farms encroaching on greenbelt land in the East Midlands. This time, an energy firm wants to create two new solar farms spanning 328 acres between two Derbyshire villages. The sites earmarked for the farms are north of Denby and north of Smalley and sit 500m apart. The Denby scheme

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Dementia sufferer, 91, dies because of carers’ language barrier.

Tom Batten / News / 7 December 2023 / England, Migration, NHS, Scotland, Wales

Language is a system used by a nation, people, or other distinct community to communicate information, thoughts, and feelings. In other words, it is essential to any functional society and human existence. It shouldn’t be too challenging to imagine the problems arising when a society doesn’t share a common language. On the more trivial side

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Nottinghamshire sex offender jailed.

Tom Batten / News / 1 December 2023 / Crime, East Midlands, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

A dangerous sex offender has been jailed after sending explicit messages and arranging to meet a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Naveed Sultan, 38, had been sending the girl sexually explicit messages, unaware that the person he was texting was an adult posing as a teenager. After arranging a meeting place, the

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Solar farms

Tom Batten / News / 28 November 2023 / East Midlands, England, Opinion, Scotland, Wales

Earlier this month, we reported on proposals to build two major solar farms in Nottinghamshire: a 76-hectare solar farm between Caunton and Kelham and the four-mile-wide Great North Road Solar Park, west of Newark. Over the past couple of weeks, there have been several developments which we can happily report on. More parish councils are

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