Dear Readers,
It’s time to ring in the New Year (quietly, for those of you nursing the hangover from hell), and hope that the memories of 2025 fade just as quickly as the Alka Seltzer in your glass. Because if ever there was a year deserving of a swift and merciless oblivion, it was the one we’ve just endured.
In fact, it’s been one of the worst years on record – and that’s saying something for a nation that’s weathered Blair’s betrayals, Cameron’s capitulations, and the full Tory surrender to wokery. 2025 however, may have topped them all. Under Sir Keir’s expert stewardship, the current Labour administration has plumbed new depths of incompetence, mendacity, and outright treason.
What we have witnessed throughout the past 12 months was a masterclass in policy blunders, corruption, lies, spectacular U-turns, and an overt assault on democracy. From crowbarring the borders open even wider, ushering in record numbers of trainee rapists and murderers (sorry, doctors and engineers), economic vandalism courtesy of Rachel ‘Black Hole’ Reeves, and a welcome to known extremists while betraying British safety, it was a parade of sleaze, surrender and sheer hypocrisy. Starmer’s resets with the EU, his grovelling to globalists, and his assaults on free speech have turned Britain into a laughing stock, all while virtue-signalling from the safety of Downing Street. The man who promised change delivered only more of the same. In true gaslighting form, the PM promised to “defeat decline and division” in his New Year message. This will presumably be achieved by him topping himself?
TNC’s own ‘Dishonours List’ for 2025 said it all – a rogues’ gallery of grifters, gaslighters, and gobshites who made the year an unmitigated disaster. If you missed it, you can catch up here.
But as true conservatives, we’re not here to wallow; we’re used to disappointment. The British establishment may have long since abandoned principle for power, but we remain cautiously optimistic for the future. As I have argued many times in these pages, things may have to get worse before they could get better. I don’t know how many notches above rock bottom we currently are, but it’s not many.
At The New Conservative, our aim remains steadfast: to hold those in power to account, champion free speech (even – especially – when it’s uncomfortable), defend British traditions against the tide of multiculturalism, and expose the betrayals and fifth columnists hiding in plain sight.
We’ll continue apace in the new year, with our writers delivering the incisive critiques you’ve come to rely on. No surrender, no compromise.
Let’s make 2026 the start of the genuine fightback for Britain – the year we begin to reclaim our country from the clutches of Starmerism and its enablers.
So from myself and Roger, I wish a very Happy New Year to you all. And a warm welcome to our new blood: the fresh writers (please do consider submitting yourselves) joining our ranks, and the growing army of new readers waking up to the fight. Your support keeps us going!
The next stop on the tour is the May local elections. Here’s to hoping that Reform lives up to the hype and gives the establishment the kicking it so richly deserves.
Yours in true conservatism,
Frank Haviland
Editor
Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and The Frank Report, which you should probably subscribe to.
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What May local elections..? Going on present form, of course…
Thank you Frank for a brilliant analysis of 2025 the only that will make 2026 memorable is the death of Starmer and his entire government in the most horrible fashion that I hope we do not have to wait too long for that.