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Joe Biden

Calamity Joe

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 […]

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David Lammy

Lammy’s Lament

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

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Union Jack

Election Aftermath

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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Larry the cat

What Now for the Conservative Party?

(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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Polling Station

Hold Your Nose

As you may remember when I discovered that our beloved Conservative Government had decided to make it a criminal offence, punishable by a £5000 fine or six months in prison, to own one or more unregistered hens, I said that I could not support the Conservative party in the forthcoming election. At one point I determined

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Dulwich College

Education, Education, Education?

(Photograph: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Labour’s plan for private schools is an iniquitous and vindictive proposal; a thinly veiled start to the abolition of the independent sector. It is also an attack on freedom of choice in Education. It will be the first time ever that education

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