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Mass immigration

What Everyone – Including the Right – Gets Wrong About Immigration

Fraser Nelson can easily be criticised for his hagiographic attitude to 21st century multiracial Britain, with his belief that we generally rub along fine, violent crime has never been lower and things are really pretty good, but his detractors miss the point. Nelson misses something far more fundamental about what we’ve become. He’s not the only […]

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Blood on the tracks

Blood on the Tracks

The latest mass stabbing, this time on a London-bound Doncaster train, took place on Saturday evening. In the terrifying confines of unguarded interconnected train carriages, a 32-year-old man launched a frenzied attack with a ‘large kitchen knife’ on unsuspecting passengers – seriously injuring 11, one of whom is in a “critical but stable condition”. Thanks

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Pope Leo

The Democratic Party at Prayer

It is over a decade since the BBC questioned whether the Church of England was still the ‘Tory Party at prayer’. In 2014, reckoning that most English Anglicans voted Conservative, it concluded that it was. It is doubtful if that is still the case, so obsessed with minority rights, reparations and institutional racism is the

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Black Queen Elizabeth II

The Blackwashing of Britain

Of all the famous ‘conspiracy theories’, the Great Replacement (that white populations in Western countries are being systematically replaced by non-white immigrants) is arguably the most well-known. I have always been reluctant to entertain it, partly on the grounds that conspiracies are usually oversimplifications of more complex issues; partly because political incompetence gets you to

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Christopher Hitchens

The Day I Met Christopher Hitchens

Atheism isn’t very fashionable on the Right nowadays. It never really was. But I never saw a conflict between unbelieving and Right-wing notions, in fact they seemed highly compatible: evidence-based; a rejection of utopian thinking; rational; grounded in reality. Thus around 20 years ago I was basking in ‘thrilling godlessness’, as Martin Amis had it,

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