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Westminster

Manifesto Anyone? 

Following the decision by the government to make it illegal to own one or more hens without registering with DEFRA, I will definitely not be voting Conservative at the next election. The only thing that would change that decision is cancellation of this completely ridiculous piece of legislation. As part of my push back against this […]

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Israel

Israel’s Collateral Damage

According to the usual pearl-clutching commentariat and our cowardly elites, Israel is not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza. Apparently over 30,000 civilians are dead, the majority of whom are women and children. To some, these distressing figures, fabricated by Hamas and enthusiastically announced by their cheerleaders in the western media, most notably

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Westminster

Who Not to Vote For?

To vote or not to vote? That is the question. Choosing who to vote for has never been a problem for me. When I was a long-haired student and member of the Labour Party I duly voted Labour and continued doing so for many years, until I saw the light. That particular light was Margaret

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House of Commons

Fools or Frauds?

(Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Stephen Pike, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) We are being led by fools wrote Professor Matt Goodwin, the author of best seller Values, Voice and Virtue, an investigation into the growing societal chasm between an unaccountable and sanctimonious self-proclaimed elite, and the working people of this country, who pay their

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Keir Starmer

Keir’s Moral Mess 

(Photograph: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) Like the enemies of Cpl. Jones’ recollection in Dad’s Army, Keir Starmer really doesn’t like it up him. After two days of mole-like burrowing in the aftermath of the weekend’s revelations about his party’s candidate in Rochdale, he eventually surfaced on Tuesday to squirm his

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Dear Rishi

Dear Rishi

As most readers will know already, I am like many others a despairing conservative; my party having forgotten its values and history. However, as a conservative I also believe, probably naively, that it is always worth trying to point out to those running the party a few of the things that they would do well to

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