I have an interest in a Portuguese business and so had reason to be there for a week over the recent General Election. Here in the UK, we are brainwashed by the chatocracy that life is dire here whilst it is so much better everywhere else, especially in the EU. Funnily enough this is rubbish, […]
As most readers will know already, I am like many others a despairing conservative; my party having forgotten its values and history. However, as a conservative I also believe, probably naively, that it is always worth trying to point out to those running the party a few of the things that they would do well to
The Labour party is promising to add VAT to school fees, in truth because they are anti private education (though they will of course not admit this). Whilst as Conservatives we should be against this proposal, it does raise an interesting question: if members of the public pay privately for services that the state promises
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How many times have we heard victims of injustice or incident call for an inquiry to ensure that it “never happens again”? However, in almost all cases the inquiry, review, commission will lead to recommendations that do not address the root of the problem or they address a problem that doesn’t exist and can actually
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Dear Baroness Hallet, I find it strange that the inquiry you chair goes into lots of aspects of the Covid pandemic, but I can’t see that any of the modules actually look at practical ways of mitigating the effects of future respiratory virus pandemics. It also is surprising that there is little on how business handled
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There is much political noise about the Covid enquiry, stop the boats, the Rwanda plan and COP28, but the most important and potentially most terrifying topic is barely discussed. The war in Ukraine is at a crossroads, with a general lack of western leadership in the face of increased Russian aggression. Western leaders appear happy to bury
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‘Net Zero’, we hear these words echoed on the news bulletins, and I am sure you will encounter them on a daily if not hourly basis. This is not just because of the current COP28 in Dubai. The term is used by all and sundry as the reason for ULEZ, LEZ, LTN, veganism, not flying,
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First it was Giorgia Meloni and now it is Geert Wilders, painted by the BBC and other media organisations as ‘extreme right-wing politicians’ – i.e. persona non grata. There is something laughably squint about this sort of reporting; extreme left-wing political parties that are, arguably far less respectful of democratic norms and human rights, never
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Our present Chancellor follows a long line of predecessors who have spent their time in office talking big but in action have simply tinkered at the edges. I feel a sense of déjà vu when I hear and read comments coming out of Downing Street about the forthcoming Autumn Statement. Over the last few months we have
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I have come to the conclusion that there are two main breeds of politicians. The ones that come into politics to tidy up the untidy aspects of life, and those who understand human frailty; blessed with the vision to harness it, for the benefit of us all. The former love things to be in order; they
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