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Peter Harris

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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Church

The Mother of all Reparations

The Church of England’s General Synod is sipping not so much communion wine as guzzling identity politics’ moonshine. Rather than telling perpetually aggrieved activists that Christ advocates forgiveness, Synod has decided to cough up a billion pounds in reparations for the Church’s historic profits from the transatlantic slave trade. At a time when church buildings

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Kemi Badenoch

The Left’s Problem With Kemi Badenoch

(Photograph: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) A phenomenon that is insupportable to the left is a black person who has been successful by his or her own efforts, and not because of positive discrimination or hiring quotas. According to socialists, black people are without exception impoverished, marginalised and oppressed, and therefore

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Lenin

A Lesson about Lenin

Sunday 21 January 2024 is the centenary anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. It might come as a surprise to readers of The New Conservative that during my late teens and early twenties, I was an apologist for the Bolsheviks and their leader Lenin. At a university interview at Warwick, I remember declaring that I had

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Douglas Murray

In Defence of Douglas Murray

(Photograph: Mark Steyn Show, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Defending Douglas Murray, the associate editor of The Spectator, is akin to defending a lion. He is one of the most effective critics of left-wing identity politics today. Yet in the culture war that this kind of politics has unleashed on the West, it

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