The New Conservative

Alastair MacMillan

Keir Starmer

Dear Prime Minister

03 July 2025   Rt.Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 1AA.   Dear Prime Minister, Thank you for your letter of 5 June, attached, responding to my letter of 14 March. I regret to say that despite what you say in your second paragraph, that you are committed to […]

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Cargo

How Do We Deal With China?

The United States has implemented substantial tariffs on Chinese imports, and is discovering just how dangerously dependent it has become on products from that country. We in the West naively believe that dealing with China is like dealing with another western country, this could not be further from the truth. China is an autocratic single-party state,

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Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer

Go For Growth

As a country, our GDP per capita has been virtually static for a number of years now. Overall, GDP has increased slowly – thanks to the immigration-lead population growth, rather than an improvement in productivity. We hear the cry from politicians of all colours that we need to “grow the economy”, which is the most

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Rachel Reeves

Labour’s Tax Miscalculation

(Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor / Treasury, OGL 3 <http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3>, via Wikimedia Commons) You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich, you cannot strengthen the week by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down…. (Abraham Lincoln)  Money was created as a

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Polling Station

Hold Your Nose

As you may remember when I discovered that our beloved Conservative Government had decided to make it a criminal offence, punishable by a £5000 fine or six months in prison, to own one or more unregistered hens, I said that I could not support the Conservative party in the forthcoming election. At one point I determined

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Dulwich College

Education, Education, Education?

(Photograph: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Labour’s plan for private schools is an iniquitous and vindictive proposal; a thinly veiled start to the abolition of the independent sector. It is also an attack on freedom of choice in Education. It will be the first time ever that education

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