“Well then, it should all just go away,” says the President in Tom Clancy’s Clear And Present Danger, the “it” in question being the secret and deeply illegal war he has launched against the Colombian drug cartels. For a writer of mass-market fiction, Clancy was an unusually acute observer of the political animal. “They want […]
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It’s Brexit all over again. Democracy does what democracy has a habit of doing: putting those who have received the most votes into seats and into power. But the quivering masses of the hyper-offended – the Liberals, Greens and assorted lefties – simply cannot accept that. Although I never watch them, I hear that the
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Unlike lower energy bills, winter fuel payments for pensioners and no tax rises for ‘working people’, Keir Starmer has finally discovered a manifesto pledge he intends to honour: votes for 16-year-olds. Speaking before Parliament’s Liaison Committee last month, the Prime Minister confirmed: “We will definitely get it done, it’s a manifesto commitment and we intend to
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The Parties did not, as someone once put it, send their best. Lower tier cabinet and shadow cabinet members turned up, along with the Lib Dem Deputy Leader. To the Greens and Reform, the event did not even merit an MP. But if the audience at Channel 4’s Local Election Debate (more of a Q&A
Local government may not be the most exotic branch of politics, but following on from last year’s general election, Thursday’s local elections will provide the first litmus test for Keir Starmer’s administration, Kemi Badenoch’s tenure as Tory leader, and give us our first indication as to whether Nigel Farage’s resurgent Reform UK are genuinely going
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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
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