(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 […]
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
Churchill’s old maxim, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter” certainly has an element of truth to it; and perhaps more so, if the voter in question happens to live in Wellingborough. For that’s what we witnessed during the more pertinent of last Thursday’s by-elections, whereby the weary right-of-centre
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If there is one thing the commissars at Labour HQ could learn from Joseph Stalin it is this: if you are going to purge your party of those who have unacceptable political opinions, you need to do it thoroughly. Of course, I am not recommending that Sir Keir, NKVD-style, rounds up all his party’s conspiracy
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(Photograph: Derek Bennett, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) The political eyes of Britain will turn this week to Wellingborough: a Northamptonshire constituency and safe Tory seat, since the incumbent Peter Bone’s election in 2005. A by-election was triggered last year however after Bone’s suspension from the Commons, and in light of the parliamentary
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(Photograph: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) A phenomenon that is insupportable to the left is a black person who has been successful by his or her own efforts, and not because of positive discrimination or hiring quotas. According to socialists, black people are without exception impoverished, marginalised and oppressed, and therefore
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How many times have we heard victims of injustice or incident call for an inquiry to ensure that it “never happens again”? However, in almost all cases the inquiry, review, commission will lead to recommendations that do not address the root of the problem or they address a problem that doesn’t exist and can actually
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Few people are impressed by the government’s flagship deterrent policy of deporting illegal migrants to Rwanda. Even those who support it acknowledge that the ensuing fight in the Lords, the inevitable court appeals, and the waiting spectre of the ECHR, with its likely imposition of legally disgraceful Section 39 rulings, reduce the chances of it
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Most of the current debate in UK politics revolves around what happens to the Right after they lose the next general election, rather than the Left when they win it. Will the Conservative Party face mere defeat or annihilation? Will the Reform Party finally translate decent poll ratings into seats under Richard Tice, or will
Corbyn Poised to Unite the Far-Left? Read More »
As a child of the eighties, I recall with great fondness the Christmases of my youth: full of stinging cold winters, and reassuring fireside warmings up; snowball fights and tobogganing; turkey dinners and endless festivities. They provided the perfect segue into the new year, with its accompaniment of bonfires, piping hot jacket potatoes, and mesmerising
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