The following is the text of a speech I gave at the Margaret Thatcher Centre Freedom Festival yesterday. Since arriving in the House of Lords, the most disheartening thing is how often a Government Minister is able to reply to an excellent point made by a member of the Opposition by saying: “But the noble […]
It has been about 15 years since I last saw my children. A prolonged separation (undertaken for what I perceived to be the greater good) led the court to conclude that too much water had flowed under the bridge and later, by the time they were re-located after a move overseas, age meant the legal
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Britain is beset by two unspeakable evils: the enemy without and within. To all intents and purposes, these are faces of the same coin. First, there are the Axel Rudakubana’s of this world – those for whom the death penalty is too lenient, as you could only hang the bastard once. These savages are omnipresent
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Human frailty is the inescapable backdrop to the rape-gang scandal. Whether it be the perpetrators driven by racism and the sordid desire for sado-sexual gratification, the bystanders intimidated into terrified silence, or the enablers willing to sacrifice children for the good of ‘community relations’ and the survival of their multicultural, identitarian fairytale, human frailty is
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Christmas is far and away my favourite time of the year. A rare moment in the calendar to slow down and unwind. The chance to savour the food and the wine, however humbly it arrives on the table. A time to reflect on the year, warts and all, and an opportunity to be grateful for
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“I don’t pay any attention to Elon Musk” opined the politician turned talking head, adopting the de haut en bas tones of Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey. He is, of course, only a politician turned talking head because he lost his seat at the election, which leads to the perhaps surprising implication that the views
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Regular readers may remember my struggle a year ago to get an A.I. to produce an image for Christmas. Being every bit as male, cheap and lazy in 2024 as I was in 2023, and having the additional justification that it would be an interesting check on the improvement in our soon-to-be silicon overlords, I
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When the Labour Party chose Jeremy Corbyn as its leader, Peter Hitchens wrote an article for the Daily Mail asking whether the Conservative Party could choose a true conservative leader now that the Labour Party had a true socialist as theirs. What the Conservatives had as prime minister during Corbyn’s party leadership were three leaders
Christmas is upon us once more, which means we’re just a few eggnogs away from the New Year festivities and the concomitant shame of the ‘Honours List’. As is customary at The New Conservative, we tend to eschew the establishment devotion to cronyism – preferring to bestow our own awards. Fortunately, it’s been a bumper
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Whether explicitly or implicitly, every MP believes that out of the roughly 70mn inhabitants of these islands, they are one of the 650 people most suited to ruling it. In this, most, if not all, are wrong. Before you ascribe this to cynicism or a certain disillusionment with the political process (neither entirely unfair), consider
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