The fundamental principle of democracy is that change is effected peacefully by a vote at the ballot box, thereby removing the need for violent kicks to a sensitive area. Ineffectual or negligent governments can be removed and replaced by those more willing to enact the will of the populace. Unfortunately for Brits, the ballot box […]
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The humiliation of the Conservative Party at the recent general election provides the opportunity for a fundamental refresh of what the party stands for, and the purpose of its existence. The most important element of any political party is its membership. This is the soul of the party; holders of the core values from which
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I have been spending a lot of time in reflection recently. The outcome of the general election on 4th July filled me with an abject longing for the 20th century values we left behind. On the stroke of midnight 31st of December 1999, it seemed common sense, fortitude, bulldog spirit and pride in our culture
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Despite insisting that he would stay in the battle, Joe Biden has finally realised that his time in the presidential election race is over, pulling out on Sunday due to pressure from his own party. This follows his dire performance in the debate three weeks ago, and mounting speculation that Biden would make the sensible
David Lammy, Britain’s foreign secretary, is a man of contradictions. Despite having studied at Harvard Law School no less, he managed to balls up some pretty easy questions on Celebrity Mastermind some years ago. When asked who had won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 for her research into radiation, he gave Marie Antoinette
Tony Blair, the megalomaniacs’ megalomaniac, hangs like a spectre over the Labour Party. Precisely how much influence he wields over the government is uncertain, although Keir Starmer recently confessed the pair spoke “a lot” in the run up to the election, and that he “regularly receives texts” from Blair, advising him on what he needs
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Over coffee with a like-minded friend in Edinburgh last week, the only morsel of comfort we could take from the results of the General Election was the body blow dealt to the SNP who lost half a million votes and 38 seats, reducing them to a rump of 9 out of the 57 Scottish constituency
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As many countries in the EU swing rightwards, Britain has a new left-wing government with an eye-watering majority of 412 out of 650 seats. The Conservatives have clung on to a mere 121 seats. A flawed Brexit, income-crushing levels of taxation and inflation, and a surge in immigration meant that the electorate was in no
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(Photograph: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Thankfully consultancy work in Italy meant I had to be there during the General Election week. I left a United Kingdom on its knees politically, socially and economically. I return to one on the verge of having the erect member of rampant socialism, priapic
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Ladies and gentlemen, the hour has come. After an interminable four-week general election campaign, mercifully spirited by the 100% proof charisma of Nigel Farage and the increasingly erratic behaviour of Sir Ed Davey (whose suicidal attempts to relieve himself of the Liberal Democrat leadership have been cruelly mistaken for bungee jumps), we have arrived at
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