The New Conservative

Politics

Dawn Butler

Racism: The Left’s Bread and Butter

(Photograph: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) One of the most compelling accounts of the decline of the Western world is its tolerance for anti-Western grievance-mongers; those for whom the possession of non-white skin somehow entitles them to market their decorated, well-heeled existences and accession to high office as ‘oppression.’ The only

Racism: The Left’s Bread and Butter Read More »

Downing Street

Lying Labour

Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor in history, was greeted with much fanfare amongst the wokerati as she announced her Autumn Budget was for “hardworking families up and down the country who have been crying out for change” (honestly, you’d think women had never been in control of the purse strings before). But that was

Lying Labour Read More »

Donald Trump

Mind Your Language

When I was an acne-encrusted and angst-driven teenager in the eighties, one of the risqué things to do was to watch the comedy The Young Ones. For those too young to know of this series, it concerned the lives of four university students renting a house together. Each was a student stereotype: Vyvyan the anarchic

Mind Your Language Read More »

Sausages

A Sausage to Fortune

We’ve refrained so far from referring to ‘sausagegate’ in these pages. After all, anyone can make a mistake. Many of us are old enough to remember 1980 when the SAS (Sausage Alert Service) rescued the sausages from the grip of the terrorists during the Iranian Embassy siege. An easy mistake to make Sir Keir. But

A Sausage to Fortune Read More »

Pigs at trough

How Deep Is Your Trough?

Ennobled by Tony Blair, Lord Waheed Alli was the first ‘openly’ gay member of the House of Lords. He also claims to be an ‘openly gay Muslim’ which not only seems like a contradiction in terms but, if he bumps into the wrong kind of Muslims, also a life-shortening strategy. I guess he doesn’t have

How Deep Is Your Trough? Read More »

Nigel Farage

Farage Backslides on Islam

(Photograph: Laurie Noble, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Twenty-four hours is famously a long time in politics. Presumably then, that makes a couple of months an eternity – particularly in the life of a newly-appointed MP. It was not so long ago after all, that Nigel Farage finally embraced Islamophobia; awarded his ‘I

Farage Backslides on Islam Read More »