The New Conservative

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Bureaucracy

Non-Statutory Guidance

How incredibly helpful of the Government, even in its dying days, to have nipped the trans/schools issue in the bud by providing ‘Non-Statutory Guidance for schools and colleges in England over Gender Questioning Children’.  Let’s first set aside these three telling facts:  1 That we have, in name only apparently, a UK government who feel […]

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Shopping

A Taste of the Future 

I’ve just been into Asda for a few bits and pieces. As usual, I chose to join a queue for a real checkout person (the automated checkouts persistently go wrong whenever I attempt to use them, and notwithstanding the unwanted intrusion of them now photographing the customer, they don’t yet seem to recognise that a

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Recycling

The Perils of Recycling

Hands up who remembers being told not to waste paper and particularly, as a shopper, not to use environmentally unfriendly paper bags and old-fashioned paper carrier bags in order to ‘save a tree’? The more environmentally friendly alternative that was in response developed was those thin clear plastic bags that are a bugger to open

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New model army

New Model Army 

The issue of conscription is back on the books again due to our likely involvement in a war with Russia and, who knows, we may even have a go at the Iranians in due course. Since Downing Street has ruled out a return to conscription, we can assume that this is most probably going to

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White Cliffs of Dover

Getting Tough on Asylum Seekers

Comedian Leo Kearse suggested on GB News Headliners that we could advertise our NHS waiting lists more forcefully or the convoluted system for trying to make an appointment with a GP. However, that is unlikely to work given that GP waiting rooms are often full of immigrant families who must have a special NHS app. That is, one that works. 

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