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Keir Starmer

Dear Prime Minister

03 July 2025   Rt.Hon Sir Keir Starmer MP, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 1AA.   Dear Prime Minister, Thank you for your letter of 5 June, attached, responding to my letter of 14 March. I regret to say that despite what you say in your second paragraph, that you are committed to […]

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Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer

Go For Growth

As a country, our GDP per capita has been virtually static for a number of years now. Overall, GDP has increased slowly – thanks to the immigration-lead population growth, rather than an improvement in productivity. We hear the cry from politicians of all colours that we need to “grow the economy”, which is the most

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Downing Street

A Very Wooden Cabinet 

Things are getting so bad in the UK under the Starmer Labour government, that it almost (almost) makes you hanker after the bumbling incompetence which characterised the end of days of the Sunak ‘Conservative’ government. It was hard to believe that things were going to get any worse, but they did, and all the signs

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Education

A Rethink on Education

The Education Manifesto of the Some-Other Party  The state, parents and education  The character of its education is one of the things that defines a nation. Education is both shaped by and does much to shape national character. The mess to which the so-called mainstream parties have reduced British education over the last fifty years

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Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf: Scotland’s Hate Monster

(Photograph: Scottish Government, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Anyone even vaguely familiar with Scotland will know the values she traditionally embodies: stoicism, courage (as the mellifluous reeds of the bagpipes attest in Scotland the Brave), and of course the hard-earned ‘Freedom’ won from the bastard English, immortalised by William Wallace’s silver screen reincarnation,

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Portugal

Portugal

I have an interest in a Portuguese business and so had reason to be there for a week over the recent General Election. Here in the UK, we are brainwashed by the chatocracy that life is dire here whilst it is so much better everywhere else, especially in the EU. Funnily enough this is rubbish,

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Houses of Parliament

The Frank Report LXXIV 

We don’t usually go in for sympathy at The Frank Report, but having had the wisdom tooth from Hell extracted this Thursday, alongside doctor’s orders to lay off the sauce, I’m feeling pretty sorry for myself. Few of us can afford a dip in intelligence, but it’s safe to say I’m now well into negative

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Rishi Sunak

Conked Out Conservatives

Things are not looking good for the Conservatives. Every day it appears, they give  themselves a lower chance of pulling through at next year’s general election. When Rishi Sunak was elected leader of the Conservative Party back in 2022, he had five key priorities on his mind: to halve inflation; grow the economy; reduce national

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