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Woke Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics has been blighted by the country’s decision to change the format of the opening ceremony. Formerly a celebration of athletic excellence, this year’s cérémonie d’ouverture was downgraded to an immersive cultural tour; highlighting the French contribution to artwork, full of le wokeism and mistakes. Traditionally, athletes from all countries competing in […]

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Premium bonds

My Word Is My Bond

State-sanctioned ‘theft’ from the deceased takes many creative forms: Inheritance Tax, intestacy rules, not honouring ‘in perpetuity’ freehold burial plot deeds, and sneakily it seems even pinching their Premium Bonds (PBs)! Living PB holders may lose out by not using other investment vehicles, but these lack the monthly thrill of imagining a big £5,000 to

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Silence

Other People’s Noise

I’m sure other people’s noise didn’t use to bother me nearly as much as it does now. For a while I assumed it was simply a facet of age; and yet when I bring this up with my close friends, none of them report a similar experience (at least those who heard me ask the

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Barbie

In a Barbie World

In a world of unrestrained wokeness, Mattel, the manufacturers of Barbie and Ken dolls, have surpassed themselves. In fact, they could be considered to be taking the right royal piss out of the doll purchasing public, mainly young girls (although..). Not content with producing dolls in a variety of shades to please nobody and, in

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Pensions

The State Pension Maze 

Do you know at what age you’ll finally get some state supplied weekly lucre? (WASPIs please don’t answer!) N.b. some sources say retirees will be written to, inviting a claim; others say it’s entirely up to the would-be retiree to instigate their claim. Similarly, do you know how many (qualifying) years of National Insurance payments

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Injecting the earth

Dr Green Will See You Now

I am not the first and, with any luck, won’t be the last to comment on the latest load of bollocks from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The RCP, about as woke a bunch as you could imagine, have surpassed themselves with their latest ten-page booklet (about ten pages too long) the Green physician

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Tattoos

To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo?

When I was a kid in the 60s, the only tattoos I was aware of were those on bonafide sailors, usually anchors, even in my children’s picture books and on TV’s Captain Pugwash. Also lowlife types often had ‘blue birds’ on their necks or ‘love’ and ‘hate’ on their knuckles or ‘mild’ and ‘bitter’ over

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