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Reform’s Makerfield Gamble: Why Kenyon Might Not Be Ready

The Makerfield by-election, the biggest local election in modern British political history, will take place in under two weeks. It’s a toss-up between Reform’s Robert Kenyon or Labour’s Andy Burnham, the current Mayor of Manchester. Josh Simons, the former Labour MP for Makerfield, stepped down from his seat a month ago, claiming Labour were ‘imploding’, and was hoping that […]

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The Sneering Style in British Politics

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I have taken to watching Cathy Newman’s show on Sky News. A slightly strange beast, it has some news but most of it is Cathy and a couple of her chums discussing the day’s events. I say chums because although there is always a leftie and a rightie, the former is of the “don’t scare the horses” variety,

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Britain Must Reconsider the Death Penalty

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The brutal murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak last December should force Britain to consider the reintroduction of the death penalty. Stabbed repeatedly on a Southampton street, the teenager gasped “I can’t breathe” to officers more concerned with handcuffing him than saving his life. In payment for this heinous crime his killer, Vickrum Digwa, received a

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Tony Blair: The Traitors’ Traitor

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Unlike Dorian Gray, I suspect Tony Blair keeps a flawless portrait in his attic. There it hangs (like the real thing, regrettably noose-free), forever youthful, forever smirking, the Messiah of the Third Way with gleaming teeth and rictus grin crucified across his jaw. Down here in the real world, Britain looks rather more weatherbeaten: stagnant

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Reform delivering migrants to the Greens

Reform’s Radical Agenda: Give the Voters What They Want

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Earlier this month, Reform UK, Nigel Farage’s latest political incarnation, proposed one of the sharpest political ideas of modern times: to site new migrant detention centres in areas that vote heavily for the Green Party, which famously advocates for a “world without borders”. Likely locations include the historic Green Party stronghold of Brighton, but after

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Voter Troubles

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Imagine this scenario: Reform UK and the Green Party are the only two options, with the result hanging on a single vote. You still haven’t marked your ballot. Not voting hands victory to the Greens. Voting Reform forces a re-vote. You choose not to vote. One year later, Muslim gangs are roaming the streets, rubber

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Starmer: The Most Hated PM in Living Memory

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There have been many moments throughout the past two years when one might have expected Sir Keir Starmer to do the decent thing and fall on his sword. The disgraceful 19-second wreath-laying in Southport, after the slaughter of Bebe, Elsie and Alice, should have ended his premiership on the spot as far as I was

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Dark Days Ahead

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I went to bed on Thursday expecting to wake up in the People’s Republic of Faragia. That didn’t happen. Firstly, the count didn’t start until 9am and secondly, the Tories won the most seats. When the dust settled, in my target seat (although not a top target), it hadn’t even been that close. Still, that minor wrinkle aside, Reform had good local elections. A

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The Green Party: ISIS Manifesto in All But Name

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With the votes finally tallied from last week’s local elections, most of the attention is rightly on the success of Reform UK. Close to the dream figure of 1,500 council seats, control of 14 councils and 26% of the national vote, Farage couldn’t have asked for more. There is another side to the centrist collapse

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Nigel Farage smoking in the Strangers Bar

Last Orders 3: Nigel’s Round

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In a quiet corner of the Strangers’ Bar, the lights are low, the mood lower, and the glasses significantly cleaner than the members’ consciences. George, the bartender, has seen it all – Remainer hysterics after Brexit, tear-sodden Tory rosettes discarded after the last general election, and the quiet front-bench despair that accompanies the latest dire

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Reform’s Makerfield Gamble: Why Kenyon Might Not Be Ready

The Sneering Style in British Politics

Britain Must Reconsider the Death Penalty

Tony Blair: The Traitors’ Traitor

Reform’s Radical Agenda: Give the Voters What They Want

Voter Troubles

Starmer: The Most Hated PM in Living Memory

Dark Days Ahead

The Green Party: ISIS Manifesto in All But Name

Last Orders 3: Nigel’s Round

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