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Where Britain’s Political Elite Go to Party
Given the current political climate, one might think that their elected representatives should at the very least be clocking in 100-hour weeks in Parliament in the run-up to the largest political upheaval of the past
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The Labour Party is “led by people who regret the outcome of the Cold War” – Daniel Hannan interview
Daniel Hannan, Conservative MEP for South-East England, is surely one of Britain’s most influential Eurosceptics. He may not be one of the most recognisable figures from the 2016 referendum campaign, but few can match
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The meat tax is not the nanny state – it’s making people take responsibility for their own actions
Recently, the government has announced a meat tax. A tax on meat that will cause the prices of red meats such a pork and beef to rise. As you can probably imagine, Twitter wasn’t
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Ignore the scaremongering – Britain can make Brexit work
April 2019. Britain has left the European Union. The U.K. Government has collapsed. Roving Street gangs terrorise the population. The death penalty has been brought back for poaching on common land as the wretched
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Why the ‘People’s Vote’ campaign is an insult to democracy
Saturday 20 October saw the largest mobilisation of ‘People’s vote’ advocates to date. The march was attended by approximately 400,000 continuity remainers or was it 500,000, or upwards of 600,000? I guess that is
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Central Bank Independence – An undemocratic Paradox
Well… you can’t let politicians control it because they’ll just manipulate it. This is the most fundamentally undemocratic argument that can be applied to continuing non elected technocrats to run central banks, yet it
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Is Kavanaugh a rapist? We don’t know! So stop pretending you do!
Anyone who’s been watching the news recently will probably be aware about a new supreme court justice. Brett Kavanaugh. This particular justice is slightly different to the others. Why? He has been accused of
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The left is politicising every aspect of culture – and the consequences are terrifying
“The personal is political” used to be the mantra that many “second wave” feminists screeched during the counterculture of the 1960s. Timothy Leary the infamous American psychologist advocated that we should “Turn on, tune
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Trump, Cohen and the dangers of impeachment
Michael Cohen’s admission of violating campaign finance laws on the instructions of then presidential candidate Donald Trump has placed talk of impeachment back at the centre of American political debate. On August 21 Mr
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Momentum claim to have dropped Peter Willsman – so why is he speaking at one of their events?
13:00 UPDATE: Mohammad Yasin MP has got in touch to say that he isn’t due to speak at the event, and that “my attendance was advertised without my knowledge”. The piece has been edited
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