Bang in the centre of Hull is a ten-acre park called Queen’s Gardens. Surprisingly, until 1935 this was a commercial dock (dating back to 1778 and then the largest in England), accessible to ships initially via the River Hull and later via the Humber Estuary. Construction cost £65,000 or the equivalent of £7.5M in 2026 […]
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After so many U-turns, we can extend the Prime Minister the charity of precision. Having already committed 15 or 16, the marginal political benefit of pinning another one on him is low and we can, if history is any guide, be confident another will be on its way shortly. Thus, I don’t think we need
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Relax. Only a week to go. The Winter Olympics will come to and end, and we will have another four peaceful years in which curling is something some people do to their hair. But perhaps not this time. For it has been an uncommonly good Winter Olympics for team GB. A first gold on snow
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“Absolutely brutal” was the GBNews verdict on Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions. Long seen as the Voice of Farage, the channel has been showing some ankle to the Tories recently, their leader appearing on it so frequently they should probably start paying her. To be fair, she does seem to
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In November, the Daily Sceptic reported that a policeman had told a Christian preacher that some words painted on his van “could be seen as hate speech in the wrong context”. The words were a Biblical verse: Chapter 3, verse 16 of the Gospel according to John, “For God so loved the world that he gave
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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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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
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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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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I have very limited experience with the Scottish police, which is as it should be in a free society. They are invariably pleasant, polite and helpful. The police don’t stop you for no reason. They don’t come round your house or place of work without cause. If you are a law-abiding citizen, you have no
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