For decades, progressives have focussed their attention on the restriction of free speech. This is crucial when you favour emotion over facts, because it helps to deny the others access to, well, facts. Since the 1990s, political correctness has shrunk the ever-narrowing boundaries of ‘acceptable speech,’ under the guise of not causing offense, naturally. Fast-forward […]
Dangerous Dictionaries Read More »
The year has turned, Old Father Time has passed by, and Sadiq Khan has squandered London council tax payers’ money on sending the most expensive virtue signal in Europe up in smoke. Nothing was missed out as fireworks paid tribute to LGBT issues, Ukraine, climate change (I assume these were low emission fireworks) and the
What we learned in 2022 Read More »
TNC youth correspondent, Jack Watson, on the widespread reluctance to ditch masks. Masks are no longer a mandatory requirement anywhere in the UK, except in some hospitals which have just started asking for them to be worn again. England dropped its mask requirement on 27 January 2022. Scotland and Wales kept masks for a
Why are people still wearing masks? Read More »
The blurb on the back of this book tells you that a hijacked plane blows up mid-air over England and two Indian celebrities, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, miraculously survive. But they then must take sides in the eternal struggle between good and evil. But at whose behest? Well, cutting to the chase, I’m buggered
Late review: The Satanic Verses Read More »
TNC youth correspondent, Jack Watson, gives an update on the depressing level of censorship at Christmas. I recently watched Free Speech Nation, with Andrew Doyle, and learned that The Pogues’ Christmas classic (Fairytale of New York) is to be censored once again. I am a huge fan of the hit, in fact it must be
End of the fairytale Read More »
As the season of goodwill to all men and transgender women (who are also men) approaches, your resident health and safety correspondent is here to see you safely through the festive season, and to help you negotiate the many hazards that await. After all, we are all completely out of practice having had two years
Wishing you a very careful Christmas Read More »
Up against stiff competition, the broadcaster, Jeremy Clarkson, has spent the start of the week as public enemy number one, after his column in The Sun last Friday, which attacked Meghan Markle. Here is the essence of what he wrote: Meghan, though, is a different story. I hate her. Not like I hate Nicola Sturgeon
Meghan Markle: hateful women deserve to be hated Read More »
I heard the other day from a colleague that a Christmas tree at his place of work had only been half decorated—from the bottom up—because colleagues were insisting on a cherry picker to decorate the upper reaches of the tree safely. I have no idea how high the tree was but being an indoor one
Playing it too safe Read More »
Before Covid-19 wiped out the whole population of Wuhan I spent five weeks there, courtesy of a Hubei Province Government scholarship for ‘prestigious international scholars’; which was nice. I had several student helpers assigned to me and one of the junior members of staff—‘Rocky’ was his English name—coordinated them. I spent a lot of time
HELP! I’ve been ‘mis-countried’ – Who’s going to resign? Read More »
Civil servants want to ‘work’ from home and, now that winter is setting in and energy prices have taken a hike, they want their heating bills paid for. You read that right the first time; they want both to work at home and be paid extra for doing so. Bless their little cotton socks, although
Not civil, and not providing a service Read More »
Copyright © 2022 The New Conservative
Powered by The New Conservative
