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Burning money

Rip-off Britain 

Not content with throwing vast amounts of cash at the uncontrolled number of asylum seekers running up the beaches of the southeast coast (nearly £50 a head weekly plus free accommodation and free healthcare)*, we throw £11 billion annually at a variety of hopeless international causes in the shape of the overseas aid budget. It […]

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Wildfires

Weather Blether

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time. People have been trying to predict the weather since the 19th century. However, meteorology is not completely reliable, and sometimes it is downright wrong. Nevertheless, weather forecasting is more accurate than it used

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ULEZ

Use-LEZ

The ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) is an area in London where a fee is charged for driving the most ‘polluting vehicles’. Boris Johnson announced his plans for the scheme back in 2015; however, subsequent Mayor, Sadiq Khan introduced the zone on 8 April 2019. Inevitably, he has made a right cock-up of it, and

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Cricket

Cricket Elitism: Yes, Please!

Sport embraced non-white athletes decades before racial prejudices begun to break down, for the obvious reason that winning is all-important. After all, the great Joe Louis fought Max Schmeling at the height of segregation—not because he was black, but in spite of it. Sport is the fairest pursuit of them all: a quest for distinction, which fundamentally demands both the selection of, and guarantees the victory to, the best players. 

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Bank vault

Banks Go Woke

According to The Telegraph, Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights charity in the United Kingdom has captured British banks to the extent that they are now members of its diversity scheme. The scheme includes guidance to employees on gender-neutral spaces and the use of pronouns. Some of the banks that have signed up

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