The United States has implemented substantial tariffs on Chinese imports, and is discovering just how dangerously dependent it has become on products from that country. We in the West naively believe that dealing with China is like dealing with another western country, this could not be further from the truth. China is an autocratic single-party state, […]
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The New Conservative, always quick off the blocks with the latest news, has a scoop. Let us be the first to announce the appointment of former Rotherham resident Percival Thistlewick as the new Mayor of Islamabad. The appointment has sparked controversy, as Thistlewick does not speak Urdu or any of the other languages used in
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I recall an SAS story, told to me by a Catholic priest following the First Gulf War, where the SAS played a crucial role in spotting targets for the RAF which still horrifies me. The story involved an SAS unit crawling through the Iraqi desert. Suddenly, they encounter some shepherds and are clearly spotted. The
Picture the scene. A kitchen table anywhere in the country. A child’s dinner time. Food is served but not eaten, just pushed around the plate. It may, depending on the dish, be rearranged into a pretty shape. It may be piled up or spread around. Parent grows concerned: “Are you not hungry?” “I want pizza.”
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I cannot bring myself to be light-hearted about any aspect of the case of Lucy Connolly jailed for 31 months for a posting on X following the Southport killing of three innocent young girls by Axel Rudakubana. It is now impossible to be anything but enraged about the case, especially as she lost her appeal
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What the hell kind of a police force do we have that can make a comment, regarding the arrest of a pensioner over a social media post, that his bookshelves contained ‘very Brexity things’? As if the presence of the police in his house was not bad enough over a social media post, while he
I am old enough to know that The Sweeney existed, but young enough (save for one episode stumbled upon on one of ITV’s cadet channels) to have never seen it. Even as Regan and Carter fade into history however, the memory of what they represented lingers – and not just among those of my advancing
We Catholics have had a few days since Thursday to reflect on the appointment of our new leader Pope Leo XIV. The cardinals have flown home, St Peter’s Square is less crowded and tourists will be back in the Vatican Museum surreptitiously photographing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The election was mercifully quick, Cardinal
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According to David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King’s College London, many of the preconditions for civil war exist in Britain today. Using academic studies on social cohesion, civil war causation theory and social attitudes surveys, he argues that the widely accepted causal factors of elite overreach, factional polarisation, a collapse
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Hull and East Riding is in the grip of election fever for the mayor of the new unitary authority. Things are hotting up and expectations are high that some people who give the proverbial will turn up at the polling stations which are already being set up. Others may just want directions to Tesco. Tensions
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