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 […]
(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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‘Foreigners shouldn’t be MPs. He’s only been a British resident since 2003. This makes a mockery of representation. Fuck Reform.’ This was posted on X earlier this month. Oh dear. The Reform candidate that this refers to is a Sikh who is a British citizen. Sikhs are proven to be patriots who work hard and
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(Photograph: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Unlike the majority of the electorate, I confess myself concerned about the impending Keir Starmer administration in a way I wasn’t concerned about Jeremy Corbyn. I humbly suggest the rest of you ought to be concerned too. Granted, Magic Grandpa was more lunatic than maverick,
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What on earth is wrong with a country—and its leaders—when the two main candidates for the post of Prime Minister after the next election feel that it is necessary to declare their level of deprivation in childhood? It is impossible to imagine this happening anywhere else in the world. Across Europe, the Far East, Middle
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While the Tories were in the process of self-destruction and doing a perfectly good job of it, Nigel Farage has returned to the fray as leader of Reform to ensure that, while they are down, they get a jolly good kicking into the bargain. Everyone knows the Tory party will be in shreds after the
(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Although it’s too early to say with any degree of certainty, Monday 3 June 2024 may well go down as a pivotal moment in Britain’s rich political history. What promised to be the dullest general election in living memory has finally been shaken out of
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Following on from his initial manifesto post, Alastair MacMillan moves on to defence. Target: Defence forces that are well-balanced to meet the threats that may manifest themselves against us and our allies. To prevent war, we must be seen by our adversaries to be strong in depth. Until the advent of flight and submarines, battles were
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(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) It’s taken Nigel Farage a long time; some might say an inordinate amount of time (a decade and a half if you’re counting), but he’s finally gotten around to addressing Britain’s Muslim problem. For this he deserves praise and reproach in equal measure: praise for
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It’s hard to make the past 14 years of Tory incompetence look polished, but Rishi Sunak certainly made a good fist of it during Wednesday’s farcical performance outside Number 10. Standing in the pissing rain with nothing to accompany him except the jeers of that megaphoned jackass, Steve Bray, and the New Labour theme tune
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