The New Conservative

Peter Harris

Magna Carta

Just Stop The Vandalism

(Photograph: Zairon, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In 1996, Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning was voted as Britain’s favourite post-war poem. It is not hard to see why, for it is a funny poem in which the narrator declares that after a lifetime of decorum, she will engage in unconventional behaviour when she is

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Israel

This Is No Genocide

As I write, students in universities across the US are occupying their campuses in protest at what they consider to be Israel’s genocide against the Gazan people. Unlike the Met Police who freeze at the prospect of arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators guilty of breaching the peace, the American police who have no such hang ups are

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Met Police

Met Police Appeasement

Since Hamas’ pogrom on 7 October 2023, we have had much confirmation of what we knew already: that the Metropolitan Police operate a two-tier policing policy. Certain types of protestors such as genocidal jihadis are given carte balance to commit public disorder acts whereas others, such as peaceful women holding a candle-lit vigil for the

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The Garrick Club

Leave the Garrick Alone!

(Photograph: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) The Guardian, in its relentless and ever increasingly anachronistic crusade against something called the Patriarchy, has once again demanded that the Garrick, one of the few remaining London gentlemen’s clubs, admits female members. As the appropriately named Amelia Gentlemen, a journalist with The Guardian, tells us

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Keir Starmer

Dying the Starmer Way

If the polls are correct, Keir Starmer is likely to be elected as prime minister with a thumping majority. God help us. It is not only the mad woke legislation that Starmer and crew will impose that we should be worried about; it is also Starmer’s promise that he will give MPs a free vote

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