Giddy is not a word one would naturally associate with Rachel Reeves. She gives every impression of having been the sort of girl who dedicated many happy hours to re-arranging her pencil case. But giddy she appeared last week, announcing the opening of a new theme park in the international tourist hotspot of Bedford. Gone […]
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The Left has a long, storied tradition of staring reality squarely in the face and refusing to believe their lying eyes. From the Soviet Union’s five-year plans to the West’s open border fantasies, nothing it seems is capable of shaking their ideological reverie. No matter how many tens of millions of deaths socialism is responsible
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14 March 2025, Rt.Hon Sir Kier Starmer MP, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 1AA. Dear Prime Minister, We all want economic growth but as shown by the latest GDP figures the country is going in the wrong direction. Businesses like this one are the beating heart of Britain’s economy, it
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With Reform UK now in disarray and all hell breaking loose in Westminster while this government stumbles from one ghastly gaffe to another, who really is to blame for this mess? Politicians? Certainly yes, but what about us – good old Joe Public? I always ask those shouting the loudest – have you ever been
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It’s a hard job being the world’s only hyperpower. You can’t just down tools after a heavy day of hegemoning and slope off to the pub for a good old moan with your colleagues. Not only does no-one really understand what it’s like, but you never get any down-time – there’s always something going on
Like a heavyweight boxer approaching the ring – an apt analogy given the way the evening ended – after a fifteen-minute delay due to people still arriving at the Hull Arena, the man himself entered the auditorium. Coming in from the back, surrounded by minders with cameras flashing and some suitably stirring music over the
The subject of slavery reparations has once again raised its ugly – and divisive – head with Foreign Secretary David Lammy recently thrust into the spotlight as “sources claim” his department is “set to meet a Caribbean delegation demanding trillions of pounds”, according to the Telegraph. Representatives of Caricom (the Reparations Commission of the Caribbean
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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner continues to pursue her near-hysterical obsession with criminalising and shutting down the free speech of folk who dare to question religious genocide and rape. Meanwhile British-Bangladeshi writer and media commentator Dr Rakib Ehsan, writing on the UnHerd website challenges this: “Though it is important to combat sweeping generalisations, definitions of
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10 January 2025, Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Prime Minister, MHCLG 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF Dear Ms Rayner, You and your colleague, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, are bringing forward Bills defining in law what you believe are greater rights for employees. You seem to be under
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The Columnists’ Paradox is that the more one writes, the less one need be read. We all have our relatively fixed biases and a reasonably finite store of stories and references, and it does not take too long (longer than my own writing “career” to date though, obviously…) for those to become sufficiently well-known to
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