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Crete

Greek Style – Part One

I’ve just got back from an idyllic few weeks in Crete, staying mainly off the beaten tourist track as my propensity for a Malia all-inclusive sun, booze and sex fest isn’t that of a teenager, or indeed those Malia-bound much older types always encountered at UK airports, typically wearing football shirts, jogging bottoms, sliders with […]

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Online shopping

Do You Temu? 

Unless you routinely shop only at John Lewis/Waitrose or other even more up market emporia, you might not have heard of the phenomenon that is Temu?  For anyone who hasn’t heard (really? where have you been?), Temu is a Chinese business that sells goods online with delivery to your own UK address or convenient pick

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Crucifix

Christian Persecution

The most persecuted religion in the world is neither Islam nor Judaism, but Christianity. By persecution, I mean how Open Doors, a charity that advocates Christian freedom of worship, defines it, which is ‘any hostility experienced as a result of one’s identification with Christ. This can include hostile attitudes, words and actions towards Christians’. So,

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Sadiq Khan

The Double Standards of Sadiq Khan

One hundred days of Britain under Keir Starmer’s stewardship, and the Labour Party’s dedication to scandal is nothing if not impressive. Thus far, the front benches are replete with allegations of cronyism, bribery, and a taste for rather obvious double standards. Political nicknames usually take some time to forge, but not for ‘two-tier Keir’—whose evident

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The Canterbury Tales

Hair-Trigger Warning 

And this week’s prize for the stupidest bloody university in Britain goes to…Nottingham University! Sadly, we are almost inured to the inanities we now witness on a daily basis. If it isn’t a bag of nuts with a ‘this bag contains nuts’ warning, sleeping pills that ‘may cause drowsiness’ and bottles of gas that proclaim

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Boris Johnson

Britannia Rules The Waives 

The part of Boris Johnson’s autobiography which most immediately captured the public imagination was his confession that, in the midst of the pandemic, with fears that the E.U. was hoarding vaccines belonging to Britain, he considered ordering the army to cross the Channel to seize them. Pearls were clutched and sage pundits argued that here

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Union Jack

The Chagos Islands Debacle

Well, well, well, after a depressing and burgeoning list of gaffes and scandals, the Labour government, for all its rhetoric regarding following a moral foreign policy, has added a large helping of neo-imperialism to the festering mix. Who would have guessed? As well as an encouragement of Argentina’s hopes of gaining sovereignty of the Falkland

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Koran

Equality Before The Law

We need to make a distinction between the believer and what he believes. It is wrong for me to discriminate against Jewish people or to act in a hateful way towards them. But I ought to be allowed to say what I please about the beliefs of Judaism. I can point out for instance that

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Toilet Rolls

The Thin Loo Line

The police have just solved the crime of the century—though it’s not the discovery of Jack the Ripper’s identity, nor the resolution of a long list of unsolved murders, or even apprehending the culprits of some of the world’s biggest robberies. No, this is far more important: Leicester police have caught one of their own

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