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The Bell Hotel, Epping

Epping: The Battle Is Over, Now It’s Time to Win the War

There have been precious few victories for the British people of late, and zero (to my mind at least) against the Starmer Inquisition (sorry, government). Tuesday’s temporary High Court injunction however, secured by Epping Forest District Council against the housing of illegal migrants at the Bell Hotel is, unmistakably, a victory. Contrary to media depictions […]

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Union Jack

Pride 1 Patriotism 0

Pride Day has just passed in my hometown of Hull. Pride flags were publicly displayed, replacing Union flags; countless posters were plastered on shop windows, and adverts invaded social media feeds. One could not miss that the event was approaching. Fortunately, away in Stockport watching football, I escaped the parade of men in dresses; their

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London pro Palestine march

No Piss Left to Take

I arrived at Hull station this Saturday to catch the train to London, en route to Heathrow Airport to take a flight to Greece. Across the road, hemmed in by high metal barriers and police vans were a handful of protesters, mainly elderly, waving Union Flags and wearing Union Flag t-shirts. I can only assume

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Policewoman

Worried About Real Crime? ’Jog On’ Say Police

The British constabulary’s lust for inventing crimes to investigate, rather than simply dealing with the ones they already have, is impressive. ‘Non-crime hate incidents’ now consume the best part of a million police hours annually. Whether it’s use of the word ‘lesbian’, retweeting a feminist limerick (thereby requiring plod to ‘check your thinking’), whistling Bob the Builder at your neighbour, or

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Terry Thomas

Terry Thomas’ England 

Chariots of Fire was on the “drop everything and watch” list my ex-wife and I compiled. A cry would go up when one of us spotted it on the telly, and we would settle down for a pleasant couple of hours cocooned in that cosy hymn to clean-limbed British manhood. Shot partly in a place

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old College, Edinburgh university

Old College, New Guilt

The University of Edinburgh’s comedy show, aptly performed during the Festival Fringe, continues. In June, it brought us the highest-paid Scottish vice-chancellor who does not know how much he is paid. Now it presents us with a report enticingly called Decolonised Transformations: Confronting the University of Edinburgh’s History and Legacies of Enslavement and Colonialism. It is

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