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Nigel Farage smoking in the Strangers Bar

Last Orders 3: Nigel’s Round

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, has seen it all – Remainer hysterics after Brexit, tear-sodden Tory rosettes discarded after the last general election, and the quiet front-bench despair that accompanies the latest dire

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Winston Churchill

Britain Needs a Bastard

Keir Starmer entered Downing Street promising the political equivalent of a monastery. He was silent on matters of substance, except to say that his administration would be founded on integrity, service, and an end to scandal; government “whiter than white”, with the adults, finally, back in the room. No more circus. No more rogues. Just

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Antisemitism

A ‘Pandemic’ of Antisemitism: the Disease With Neither Cause nor Vaccine

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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Father and daughter

The Hounding of Melanie Gill

‘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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