It takes a lot for me to defend Keir Starmer. The phrase ‘wouldn’t piss on him if he were on fire’ automatically springs to mind, the minute our Pillsbury Dullboy of a Prime Minster waddles into the conversation. However, the accusation that Labour’s votes at 16 are a crude attempt to “rig the political system” […]
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No one ever believes that I have never voted Tory, but it’s true. Yet today, with Reform having lost perhaps the last of its actually Right wing MPs in James McMurdock, and Farage admitting in the New Statesman that Jenrick will outflank him from the Right (something I called last September), it suddenly looks like an awful possibility. Instinctively Right
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The Conservative Party has lost a titan, while the nation laments the passing of one of the last true characters in politics – a man who could make a socialist blush and a trade unionist quiver with a single arched eyebrow. Norman Beresford Tebbit (Baron Tebbit CH PC to give him his dues) has shuffled
As I wrote in the aftermath of last year’s general election, the real story was not the right-wing political fracture but the emergence of sectarian voting: “The realpolitik of the Muslim block vote was not wasted on Jeremy Corbyn, who not only won his Islington seat on a pro-Palestine ticket, but must have been kicking himself that
Mass immigration, the Blairite Ponzi Scheme no successive British government has been willing to dismantle, is firmly back on the agenda. According to YouGov polling, only the economy is considered a more pressing issue for most voters. And that’s hardly surprising, given that we have Rachel Reeves’ steady hand on the fiscal tiller; shoring up
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Reform UK are flying high in the polls. A recent Ipsos survey gave them 34 per cent of the vote, nine points ahead of Labour and more than enough to comfortably form the next Government. A YouGov MRP poll of 11,000 people, moreover, predicted a Reform UK victory, albeit one defanged by a hung parliament.
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As a teenager who has just finished school, I don’t yet pay tax, rent, or utility bills, nor do I have a regular income. But I am acutely aware that the country I am growing up in is deteriorating day by day. Our ineffective and dishonest Labour government is rapidly running the United Kingdom into
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Karl Marx’s famous declaration—inscribed on his tomb and drawn from his Theses on Feuerbach—reads: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” Yet this call to action, once revolutionary, may have outlived its usefulness. In its place, Continuism, an emerging philosophy, offers a different proposition: the
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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