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The net zero carbon con

The UK is engulfed in fog, our ungritted drive is a death trap and even the spiders’ webs are freezing in the garden. It’s what the weather buffs on the BBC refer to as a ‘cold snap’, the definition of which is ‘a brief period of very cold weather’; who could have predicted that in […]

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The Ugly Face of Immigration

The recent attacks on Suella Braverman should come as no surprise to anyone with half an eye on the ball at Westminster. It’s the usual modus operandi deployed against a Conservative Home Secretary—particularly one so brazenly conservative, she actually considers tackling the scourge of illegal immigration to be within her remit. Only two years ago,

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The Jay Report: 7 Years to Tell Us Nothing

Seven years in the making, the long-awaited Jay Report was released earlier this month. Doubtless, you heard precious little about it. This is a shame, because the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) concerns not only the negligence of state institutions and public bodies, but also accusations of an establishment cover-up—an issue some might consider newsworthy.

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The invasion continues 

BBC Radio 4 has become almost unbearable in the early mornings up to 9am. Thereafter, I have no idea how bearable it actually is these days, as I never listen to it. The radio in our bathroom is permanently tuned to Radio 4 and, since that is where it was tuned when my grandfather died

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Time for Britain to euthanise the Conservative Party

While the political Right is enjoying something of a renaissance across Europe (Giorgia Meloni’s victory in Italy, Marine Le Pen’s great advances in France, and Jimmie Åkesson’s meteoric rise in Sweden), ironically in Britain, 12 years of ‘conservative’ government hasn’t translated into anything even vaguely resembling a conservative agenda. A major contributing factor to that

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Policing the response to crime

A good litmus test of a functioning democracy is the efficacy and neutrality of its law enforcement. These are sentiments echoed in the police oath: ‘I will execute the powers and duties of my office honestly, faithfully and diligently without fear of or favour to any person and with malice or ill-will toward none.’ Sadly,

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