(Photograph: Zairon, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) In 1996, Jenny Joseph’s poem Warning was voted as Britain’s favourite post-war poem. It is not hard to see why, for it is a funny poem in which the narrator declares that after a lifetime of decorum, she will engage in unconventional behaviour when she is […]
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Imagine if Lord Nelson had issued orders aboard HMS Victory to ‘prepare to repel boarders’, the marines mustered and they asked, ‘what with Captain?’ It strikes me that we face a similar situation here in the UK. What’s more, many of the boarders have already boarded, undetected until now, and are busy poking holes in
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Being middle-aged, skint and male has precious little going for it, especially in the over-feminised age we find ourselves in. I confess there is a certain appeal to drinking oneself into oblivion chez the local gentlemen’s club. Unfortunately, while my cognac-laced cohorts idle the hours away grappling with the thorny conundrums of the age, the
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In a recent online article, the BBC informed its readers that according to the National Skills Academy for Rail, the average train driver is forty-six years old, male and white. You know that when the BBC reports something like that, it is a cue for yet another condescending lecture about various ‘isms’ and the need
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When times are good, the social contract makes for an attractive proposition: the citizen accepts the surrender of certain freedoms to the state in exchange for protection, maintenance of the social order, and representation come election time. It must be said however, that in Britain we are currently far from the best of times. If
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As ever, here at The New Conservative we are ahead of the curve. One of our investigative journalists has obtained a draft copy of the new Metropolitan Police Training Manual from Hendon College. The training manual contains the new, revised curriculum for police cadets and is being kept under wraps until completion and launch on
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VisitBritain–Britain’s flagship tourism agency which provides you with fresh perspectives of the UK’s diverse cities, modern twists, historic icons and green spaces full of unexpected gems–has created a 50-page language guide for their workers that tells them what words they can and cannot say to secure an inclusive and innocuous workplace for everyone. The company,
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As I write, students in universities across the US are occupying their campuses in protest at what they consider to be Israel’s genocide against the Gazan people. Unlike the Met Police who freeze at the prospect of arresting pro-Palestine demonstrators guilty of breaching the peace, the American police who have no such hang ups are
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You would imagine that proposals to devolve politically the area where you live would be big news, especially in the area where you live. But the first I knew about this was when I saw a sticker with a QR code at a bus stop in Hull. We were exhorted to “have our say” on
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Magdalen College, the wealthiest constitutional college of the University of Oxford, has come under fire for scrapping a traditional St George’s Day celebration, which falls every year on 23 April and honours the patron Saint of England. The dinner has been replaced by a ‘special’ banquet for Eid – the second consecutive year the college
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