Whichever aphorism you favour: ‘Beggars can’t be choosers’ or ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’, the lexicon is replete with the age-old wisdom that assistance comes at a price. Such wisdom however may now be subject to rewriting (at least in Britain), after the Conservative government’s International Development white paper unveiled on Monday at […]
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First it was Giorgia Meloni and now it is Geert Wilders, painted by the BBC and other media organisations as ‘extreme right-wing politicians’ – i.e. persona non grata. There is something laughably squint about this sort of reporting; extreme left-wing political parties that are, arguably far less respectful of democratic norms and human rights, never
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A recent book, In My Daddy’s Belly, which teaches children that men can get pregnant has just been published. The author, Logan Brown, has authored this book to share his experience as a transgender man, claiming that ‘it is important for his daughter to read his story.’ Brown was featured on the June Pride digital
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Last week’s net migration figures were shocking. 745,000 more people came to the UK than left in 2022, 672,000 during the year to June 2023. The numbers are astronomical. Where will they be housed? I thought we were in the midst of an acute housing shortage? Where will their children go to school? And where,
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One of the latest examples, among the dispiriting many, of ideology taking precedence over historical truth is the row that has detonated over the claim by University College London’s Dr Jenny Bulstrode that Henry Cort, who is credited with inventing a ground-breaking iron-making process in 1784, actually stole the idea from Jamaican slaves. Bulstrode’s claim
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I was recently in Berlin and no visit is complete without a tour taking in the Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 by Soviet controlled communist East Germany. It was designed to ensure that the inhabitants of East Berlin could enjoy the delights of living in a communist country, whether they liked it or not, free
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While I’m very much the traditional, stiff-arsed Brit when it comes to interactions with other people, I have practically limitless affection for animals, and am never afraid to put it on display. Despite this, I’ve resisted the temptation to get a dog for over a decade, and not entirely without reason. For starters, my wife
In a time when the commissars of English wokery, those self-flagellating haters of their own country and culture, are doing their relentless best to topple English heroes through bad history, there is something charmingly forgivable about a person defending her English hero, albeit also through bad history. To whom am I referring? Phillipa Langley, the
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The black slave trade is an inexcusable blight on Britain’s history, but to listen to some commentators, such as those affiliated with Black Lives Matter, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was still taking place or that it had only been abolished a few years ago. In the minds of many young people,
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Recently, the Financial Times revealed that Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, is littered with passages lifted from other sources, including that dubious fount of knowledge, Wikipedia, without the correct acknowledgement such as quotation marks, footnotes and a bibliography. Reeves has, of course, denied plagiarism and her office has defended
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