The New Conservative

Roger Watson

All shuttle, no cock

I was asking my 13 year old grandson about his week at school and he told me that he had been playing badminton, and really enjoyed it. That was the cue for me to expound on my own exploits on the badminton court, offer him some advice (actually, my only advice about badminton is that […]

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Is there life on Mars?

Nobody knows if there is or ever was life on Mars. If there is, it is unlikely to look like us; if there was, it would have been a pretty pointless existence – according to scientists, the planet’s atmosphere would make it impossible to hold a conversation. Apparently, sound would travel much more slowly and,

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Flag-waving

On my early morning walk to the gym, I have to walk past my former employer, the University of Hull. This week I glanced over the road to see yet another virtue signal, literally, hoisted up the flagpole. The Ukrainian flag. I have previously written in these pages on another piece of flag-waving from the

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Vaxxman begins

I’m not a conspiracy theorist (you can just hear the ‘but’ coming, can’t you?) and I am not an ‘anti-vaxxer’ (refer to previous material in parentheses). This is despite penning two large essays—The New Conservative passim—on the origins of globalism and its current manifestations with Dr Niall McCrae. I have also been very critical of

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Pining for the pandemic

Who in Britain recalls the pandemic? Those long summer days of 2020 in our back gardens sipping gin and tonics, ‘working’ from home and deciding which face mask to wear. We waited with bated breath for the weekly Covid-19 updates from our Great Leader flanked by his trusty medical and scientific colleagues Professors Witless and

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Putin up with poetry

Let’s spare a thought for poor old Vlad the Putin. He must be barely able to sleep these days, what with the war and all. But he also has to bear the burden of being expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest, Sainsburys changing the spelling of ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ on its chicken Ки́їв (The New

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