There were celebrations yesterday as Wales outlawed smacking, or any form of physical punishment for children. This comes hot on the heels of Scotland, who introduced a ban back in 2020. Under the common law defence of ‘reasonable punishment’, smacking, hitting, slapping and shaking were previously permitted for parents, but this will no longer apply. […]
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist (you can just hear the ‘but’ coming, can’t you?) and I am not an ‘anti-vaxxer’ (refer to previous material in parentheses). This is despite penning two large essays—The New Conservative passim—on the origins of globalism and its current manifestations with Dr Niall McCrae. I have also been very critical of
Who in Britain recalls the pandemic? Those long summer days of 2020 in our back gardens sipping gin and tonics, ‘working’ from home and deciding which face mask to wear. We waited with bated breath for the weekly Covid-19 updates from our Great Leader flanked by his trusty medical and scientific colleagues Professors Witless and
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The New Conservative has barely been live a month, but we’ve already had more than our fair share of teething problems. Having said that, there have also been some unexpected benefits. First of all, it’s refreshing to have MPs suddenly willing to reply to your queries. Secondly, a magazine brand does seem to open doors
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Let’s spare a thought for poor old Vlad the Putin. He must be barely able to sleep these days, what with the war and all. But he also has to bear the burden of being expelled from the Eurovision Song Contest, Sainsburys changing the spelling of ‘Kiev’ to ‘Kyiv’ on its chicken Ки́їв (The New
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If you are into Vikings—and a great many people are—then there is a televisual feast of programmes available on Netflix. I reckon that if I sat down now and watched them all end to end that I may be dead before I get to the end. But what is not to like about Vikings? Big
No one knows what a woman is anymore, but it wasn’t always the case. When I was at primary school 35 years ago, even the slowest learners in the class could reliably identify the contents of their pants. On one occasion, a boy famously strayed into the girls’ toilets and was thereafter accorded the sort
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After a week away I returned to catch up on the previous weekend’s newspapers and a full page Saturday interview in The Daily Telegraph with former cricketer Michael Vaughan caught my eye. I wish it hadn’t. Vaughan, as many will know, was at the heart of a race row storm in Yorkshire cricket over inappropriate
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I popped out at dusk one evening this week to post a letter (for younger readers, this was how people used to communicate until the late 1900s). I live across the road from my previous employer, the University of Hull, and I saw there was a flag at the top of the flagpole on the
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It seems the perpetually-offended are having to go the extra mile these days. With almost all aspects of culture already decried as too white, grievance campaigners are getting creative. Perhaps there will come a day when North Korea rightly faces international opprobrium for its inexcusable whiteness, but until such time, it’s good to see the
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