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International Women’s Day

I have to confess as a fully paid up member of the Patriarchy, International Women’s Day has never really done it for me. It does take the shine rather unsportingly off the wife-beating, rape and misogyny if you have to pretend to give a shit about the feminist cause in the process.  But that was

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Islam must be taken in hand

Islam Needs Taking in Hand

The following was written almost ten years ago as Britain sought to extricate itself from the European Union, but is as apposite now as it was then. Who would have thought that our overlords’ appeasement of Islam could get worse? And yet it has. As the weekly Hamas marches, the Rochdale buy-election and the treatment of

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Letters to the editor

Readers’ Forum

Dear readers, as the TNC inbox is now getting more traffic, we hope to make reader letters a regular feature. Please send your letters (on any subject, and as rude as you like) to letters@thenewconservative.co.uk. Feel free to leave your name and address (although you can send them anonymously should you wish). Here are the

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UK General Election

Forget the Tories, Is It Time to Reform the Electorate?

Churchill’s old maxim, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter” certainly has an element of truth to it; and perhaps more so, if the voter in question happens to live in Wellingborough. For that’s what we witnessed during the more pertinent of last Thursday’s by-elections, whereby the weary right-of-centre

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Richard Tice

Wellingborough: Can Reform UK Replace the Tories?

(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) The political eyes of Britain will turn this week to Wellingborough: a Northamptonshire constituency and safe Tory seat, since the incumbent Peter Bone’s election in 2005. A by-election was triggered last year however after Bone’s suspension from the Commons, and in light of the parliamentary

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