The New Conservative

Kim Rye

The Blitz

Lest They Died in Vain

During the borefest that is the post-Christmas not-yet-back-to-work scenario, I was rooting around on YouTube looking for some interesting social documentary and I happened upon this little gem: I absorbed myself in this 1964 BBC Archive documentary for half an hour, transported to the days of my childhood and the two channels of television we […]

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Pensioners

Letter to a Labour MP  

This government needs disabusing of the idea that pensions are a “benefit”; they have been earned by many years of hard work and sometimes hardship. Do members of parliament think, therefore, that their own pensions should be classed as benefits, and thereby subject to harsh cuts like everybody else’s? If not, surely this is highly

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White Cliffs of Dover

Taking Back Control

I have been spending a lot of time in reflection recently. The outcome of the general election on 4th July filled me with an abject longing for the 20th century values we left behind. On the stroke of midnight 31st of December 1999, it seemed common sense, fortitude, bulldog spirit and pride in our culture

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