The word “radical” derives ultimately from the Latin radix meaning “root” (every so often my classical education demands an airing – yes, radix is “root’s” root). It retains an air of this in our current usage. A radical reform is a root and branch reform, one which rips up that which has gone before and […]
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Anas Sarwar recently described Nigel Farage as a ‘Margaret Thatcher tribute act’. To be fair to the, albeit rather testy, leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Farage has never denied his admiration for the Iron Lady. Neither has he hidden his seemingly unwavering commitment to the same small state, free-market approach that characterised her governments
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Credit where credit is due, congratulations are finally in order for Sir Keir Starmer. Despite an otherwise lacklustre 10 months in government, the Prime Minister has at least hit one target ahead of schedule: the first 10,000 illegal immigrants of the year crossed the English Channel at the end of April – that’s a month early, and
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There was a lot to like in Sir Keir’s speech on immigration last week. He vowed to ‘take back control’ and end the ‘one nation experiment in open borders’. Even his signature delivery – redolent of an AI-generated hologram with a nasty cold – couldn’t detract from the rare veracity of his message. Forces are
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The grand illusion of BRICS – that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa could stand together as equals, forging a new world order beyond the grasp of Western hegemony – was always more wishful thinking than sober reality. From the beginning, the alliance was a patchwork of competing interests, bound not by shared ideals
There has been a run on loo paper in the coastal towns of France. The supermarket shelves are empty, not a pack of supersoft to be found; even that shiny ‘medicated’ stuff we used to use as children is out of stock. It’s like Covid all over again. What lies behind this terrible situation is
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“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
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