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I recently spent some happy hours with Noel Edmonds. That he was in New Zealand and I was in the London ‘burbs was perhaps for the best because, beloved childhood figure though he was, his beliefs are most politely described as unconventional batshit. I find crystal beds and healing energy every bit as interesting as […]

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Angela Rayner

We Need to Talk About Angela

No one enjoys a healthy pisstake more than I. And there’s certainly no more inveterate snob than the one I glimpse increasingly despairingly in the bathroom mirror every morning. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner (‘Ange’ to the TNC faithful), is a regular feature of these pages, in what I hope is somewhat harsh – but

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Access denied

Less Porn, More Crime? 

Ofcom – the regulator for communication services – has unveiled new plans to enforce stricter restrictions and new safety measures, in a bid to prevent children accessing inappropriate and harmful content online. The measures have been introduced as part of the Online Safety Act, which means social media and online companies are now legally responsible

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Nigel Farage

Farage Targets Law & Order 

Despite consistently riding high in the opinion polls, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is beset by two major challenges which could scupper victory come the next general election. Firstly, there is Farage’s obvious inability to share the limelight – as witnessed by historic high-profile fallouts with colleagues all the way back to the days of UKIP,

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Norman Tebbit

RIP Norman Tebbit

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

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Jezza for Jihad

Jezza for Jihad

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

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