The stabbing of two Jewish men in broad daylight in Golders Green this Wednesday wasn’t a random act of ‘far-right thuggery’, to use the Prime Minister’s favourite bête noire. It was a terrorist incident. Two men – Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were attacked because they were visibly Jewish by the ‘British’ Somalian, […]
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In a quiet corner of the Strangers’ Bar, the lights are low, the mood lower, and the glasses significantly cleaner than the members’ consciences. George, the bartender, knows better than to ask questions. He just pours. Most nights it’s half-empty – a few lobbyists nursing grievances, the odd backbencher hiding from the whip, and the
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‘UK mother separated from children for years has “draconian” order overturned’ ran a Guardian headline in February over a story about how ‘flawed evidence’ presented by psychologist Melanie Gill led to the separation of a family. The tone was one of righteous vindication on the part of a long-suffering mother. The separation was initially ruled
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In a quiet corner of the Strangers’ Bar, the lights are low, the mood lower, and the glasses significantly cleaner than the members’ consciences. George, the bartender, knows better than to ask questions. He just pours. Most nights it’s half-empty – a few lobbyists nursing grievances, the odd backbencher hiding from the whip, and the
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My father died back in 2013, but today is his birthday. Like him, I’m not much of a birthday person as a rule, but I always remember his — 5/4/32 — pretty hard to forget. Dad didn’t “do” birthdays, as he put it. He rarely remembered yours, and he’d be offended if you showed up
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Keir Starmer likes to present himself as the decent man in politics: the former Director of Public Prosecutions, the lawyer who values evidence and rectitude above all, the antithesis of the slick spin-doctor or the blustering populist. “I’m not a politician,” he told anyone who’d listen during the 2024 election campaign, “I’m a public servant.”
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Those who know me, or have read my column for a while now, might be under the impression that I’m a bit of a whinger. They’re right, of course, but on occasion the whinging is justified. Just as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the truth of any article is in the
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Thanks to a recent YouTube recommendation, I have rediscovered the delights of Derek and Clive aka Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. One infamous recording, ‘The worst job I ever had’, is a harrowing account of the nocturnal collection of Winston Churchill’s bogeys – bogeys which, it transpired, were actually HMS Titanic. If you haven’t heard
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Keir Starmer is now officially the most unpopular Prime Minister in modern history. A paltry 18% of the electorate view him favourably, while the majority of 75% do not. More than half of the British public want him to resign – and if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that percentage was significantly higher across the Labour
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Dear readers, This is a very brief note to let you know the state of play at The New Conservative. I have been hit by something nearing the perfect storm in terms of a personal life of late, and must rapidly begin a new job, move house, and negotiate my divorce appeal as it reaches
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