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Nigel Farage

Farage Backslides on Islam

(Photograph: Laurie Noble, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Twenty-four hours is famously a long time in politics. Presumably then, that makes a couple of months an eternity – particularly in the life of a newly-appointed MP. It was not so long ago after all, that Nigel Farage finally embraced Islamophobia; awarded his ‘I

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Middle Age

The Perils of Middle Age

Youth is famously wasted on the young, while old age comes to us all. But their distant cousin, middle age, may be the worst and the least-forgiving of the three acts of the lifespan. Trapped: no longer a child, yet unable to throw off the shackles of responsibility and give up caring completely, middle age

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Notting Hill Carnival

The Notting Hill Stabfest

The Notting Hill Stabfest (sorry, ‘Carnival’) kicks off today! It’s amazing how quickly these family-friendly events creep up on you – assuming you haven’t already been stabbed this year and are therefore sadly out of commission? As a Londoner myself it’s great to see the capital’s traditions being honoured – with stabbing now as permanent

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Royal courts of justice

Free Speech: All or Nothing

The fundamental principle of democracy is that change is effected peacefully by a vote at the ballot box, thereby removing the need for violent kicks to a sensitive area. Ineffectual or negligent governments can be removed and replaced by those more willing to enact the will of the populace. Unfortunately for Brits, the ballot box

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Tommy Robinson

The Framing of Tommy Robinson

(Photograph: Anything Goes With James English, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Keir Starmer’s callous dismissal of legitimate concerns over the Southport murders, was a major contributory factor to the riots we have witnessed over the past week. That view is shared by a wide cross-section of the electorate, including 48% of Conservative voters

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The Frank Report LXXXI

Welcome to the latest edition of The Frank Report where, contrary to form, the laughs are a bit thin on the ground. In fact, you find us in mourning. Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were brutally slain in Southport earlier this week; the latest in a long line

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Keir Starmer

Starmer Picks a Side 

In the first big test of his premiership, Keir Starmer has addressed the ‘far-right’ riots in response to the Southport murders. For anyone vaguely familiar with the concept of cause and effect, it was always obvious which part of the equation Starmer would be most keen to highlight. Statesmanship and leadership are ethereal concepts at

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