The New Conservative

Roger Watson

Korean women

Plastic Paradise?

I have never managed to connect with South Korea despite several visits. I suppose that the fact these have all been business visits and mostly in winter when it is cold almost beyond belief has not helped. Also, I have only been to Seoul which is a huge traffic-jammed place. I don’t like Korean food, […]

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Zelensky

Tough-Talking Keir

A former British Army Chief of Staff was interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme last week, about the woeful state of the British Armed Forces. He said that when he commanded a battle group – of which there were several at that time – he had more men and more firepower at his

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Nigel Farage

Farage in Hull

Like a heavyweight boxer approaching the ring – an apt analogy given the way the evening ended – after a fifteen-minute delay due to people still arriving at the Hull Arena, the man himself entered the auditorium. Coming in from the back, surrounded by minders with cameras flashing and some suitably stirring music over the

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Westminster

On the Up

Amidst so much gloom and doom in the UK right now, with the economy nose-diving, cold damp weather and gazing longingly across the Atlantic where so much good sense is being enacted within the USA, we need to make the best of the occasional glimmers of hope that flicker in our land. It struck me

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Hungarian Parliament

Brilliant Budapest

My first (and long overdue) visit to Budapest has been nothing less than brilliant. This is a fantastic city in a fantastic country, and I can tell all that from only five days here. In these five days of exploring Budapest high, low and sideways I have not seen any of the following: an LGBTQWERTY/Minor

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Peter Hitchens

In Defence of Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens needs no defence, least of all from me. But, given some recent comments and replies on the UNN Telegram site I thought it might be appropriate to consider his recent comments regarding the case of Axel Rudakubana. Specifically, Mr Hitchens questions whether it is correct to refer to Rudakubana as a terrorist and

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