The New Conservative

Roger Watson

Question Time: then and now

A few days ago, someone uploaded a whole episode of BBC programme Question Time from 2002 up on YouTube. I have long given up on Question Time as there are now so many better programmes to watch. Gradually, the programme has transformed from a cutting edge forum for debate between intellectual leviathans into something more […]

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Cock-birthing

It seems, by a miracle of modern medicine that men can have babies. Real men, that is according to advice recently given to midwives at Edinburgh Napier University. The guidance was given that a person making the transition from being a man to being a man with boobs who presents at the maternity unit may:

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Scouting for girls

My late mother, always the mistress of the malapropism, once referred to the ‘Gouds and Skites’ when, in fact, she meant to say the Guides and Scouts; what we used to refer to as the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. The clue to the binary gender distribution between the two movements was in the name.

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Google my @r$€

“Everything is brutal, now we’re being watched by Google” sang the Leicester based indie rock group Kasabian. It may not necessarily be brutal, but it is watching everything we do, making a record of the websites we visit, what we purchase, collecting our demographic details and sharing that information with others to whom it may

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DIY: Don’t do it yourself

The NHS, the Nanny State’s military wing, has worked hard to install itself at the centre of our lives, instead of focussing on the nation’s health. Not content with being the vanguard of the masking, jabbing, social distancing and lockdown fanatics, it has now fallen for its own rhetoric of ‘saving the NHS’ and is

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Lamenting lost Bobbies

I have lamented elsewhere the woeful state of our police in the United Kingdom, in which I reflected on the almost total lack of Bobbies or Robertas on the beat (and no, I don’t mean a la David Lammy). Instead they have been replaced by obese and ill dressed ‘community officers’, usually swigging cans of

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Why Rwanda?

I am at a loss to understand why Home Secretary Priti Patel is planning to send illegal immigrants arriving in the UK to Rwanda. Why not send them to Scotland? After all Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to have control over its own immigration policies and wants to welcome migrants to help solve Scotland’s population problem

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