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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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UK General Election

Forget the Tories, Is It Time to Reform the Electorate?

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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Richard Tice

Wellingborough: Can Reform UK Replace the Tories?

(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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Kemi Badenoch

The Left’s Problem With Kemi Badenoch

(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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