“Look what you made me do!” So often goes the stereotypical line of the domestic abuser after being ‘forced’ to grant his wife her umpteenth black eye for failing to come to heel. I can’t help but reflect on that sick form of manipulation when observing the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war. Much like the […]
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They say it’s all downhill after 40, but in my case it was more of a freefall. While I’ve never been particularly athletic, I’d always been active: a professional juggler for over a decade, with swimming and a little (very) amateur boxing thrown in for good measure. Everything was fine until I hit the big
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(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Unlike the Tory and Labour pilgrimages up north, last Saturday’s Reform UK Party Conference was held closer to Westminster, at London’s prestigious Hilton Metropole. While the British media did not appear particularly interested, the turnout was certainly more enthusiastic than the Conservative sojourn in Manchester,
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The Frank Report has just returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, and your correspondent couldn’t have gotten out of there fast enough; even with a first-class ticket on HS2! With the Tories about as effective as a Diane Abbott cue card, you’d expect Labour’s Fab Four (Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Reeves) to resonate
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(Photograph: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Apart from its decade-long love affair with Tony Blair, the British electorate hasn’t allowed the Labour Party anywhere near its boudoir for the best part of half a century. It’s been a feature of successive Labour Party Conferences to promise the moon and stars—safe in
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You can tell everything about the state of a political party by its autumn party conference. For the Conservatives, last week’s shindig held at Manchester’s Central Convention Complex had all the energy of an autopsy. If Rishi Sunak was hoping for a favourable eulogy however, he was to be disappointed. As you’d expect when you’re
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Britain is the best country to be black in” Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch confidently informed the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester last Tuesday. Is she right? Perhaps, and then again perhaps not, particularly if you’re a black adolescent living in London. I can certainly think of a number of black teenagers, senselessly slain within the
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In an ideal world, might we not hope our men live up to the expectation of unfaltering chivalry? Absolutely. But with misandrist feminists the norm, why on earth should they? What’s the point, when all you get is spit in the face? Feminism was undoubtedly once a noble cause, but its modern incarnation certainly isn’t. Dismissing male suicide, weaponising rape accusations, and using your sexuality as a battering ram ought to forfeit any woman her right to complain of unchivalrous treatment.
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Immigration (particularly the illegal variety) is unquestionably the fundamental issue facing the West at this point in political history. Whatever side of the fence you sit on, you know that tough talk promising a crackdown on illegals, or compassionate noises about human rights is what translates into votes come election time. During a recent address to the American Enterprise Institute, a centre-right think tank in Washington DC, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman certainly set out her stall early
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I have no position on Brand’s innocence one way or the other, unless it is the general desire to see justice done – however, trial by social media cannot be the way to go. The legal process must be adhered to – if we managed it for Lucy Letby, we can just about stomach it for Brand.
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