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Nigel Farage

Reform Has a Tightrope to Walk

Will Reform UK win the next general election? It’s possible, not probable. Between now and then the Establishment – chiefly the liberal political and media class – will throw everything it can at Reform to stop them (witness The Guardian’s pitiful attempts to smear Farage for his schoolboy behaviour). If they do manage to gain

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Meditation

The Illusion of Control

I meditated well this morning. I do sometimes. As I should. I’ve been practicing for nearly 14 years. You would have thought I had got my head round it by now. After all, it only took me 13 years to knock off school. But meditation, it turns out, is harder than readin’, ‘writin’ and ‘rithmetic.

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A weak Keir Starmer

Authority and Power 

What our cavemen ancestors thought of the animals among which they lived their lives, we cannot tell. Neither left us any written records to decipher. But since a sabre-tooth tiger could do as much damage to us as we could do to it, it is reasonable to assume that, to the humans of the day,

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Shabana Mahmood

Do You Believe Them?

After a week of turmoil with opportunistic right-wing politicians jumping around in pursuit of a political billet which suits their ambitions better, perhaps the media can refocus on the right target i.e. the incumbent government. While the media dredges up past communications which prove how duplicitous politicians can be, the spotlight is diverted from Starmer:

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