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We Must Stand Shoulder to Shoulder with Hong Kong
To understand the implications and magnitude of China’s decision to back the new “Hong Kong Security Legislation”, one must first understand the historical tensions that are at play in the region, especially those that
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THE STATE WITHDRAWS, THE VOLUNTEERS MOVE IN
We’re often told by the left that we require the overwhelming state to provide nearly every public service in society. We simply cannot survive without the government – it is impossible and the retreat
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Boris Johnson is Destroying the Tory Brand
Boris Johnson is, frankly, very ill-suited to dealing with this pandemic. He is the epitome of a good-time Prime Minister, but has proven incapable of effectively leading the ship through this most troubling of
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The Cummings Story: a Call for Rational Thinking
When the Cummings story broke on Saturday morning, the media and country were understandably in uproar. The sheer arrogance and hypocrisy of one of the political ‘elites’ paying such blatant disregard to the isolation
Read More »Cummings Statement: The elephants in the room and missed questions about the validity of the Lockdown
After a delay that brought new meaning to the term ‘a pregnant pause’, Dominic Cummings rolled into view over half an hour late to deliver a Statement that had basically put the UK on
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Storm in a Whisky Glass: A Particularly Bad Week on Scottish Political Twitter
As will come as a shock to absolutely nobody, something undignified happened on Twitter this week. Normally, an unfortunate exchange on that 280 character at a time hellscape inhabited primarily by weirdo cat girls,
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Opinion: How does a One Nation Tory government pay the COVID bill?
To try and prevent the complete collapse of the British economy after COVID, the government has, quite rightly, spent hundreds of billions of pounds on propping up businesses and preserving jobs. No doubt as
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Post Corbyn Labour Still Can’t Define Itself
Much has been made of Sir Keir’s performance at the Dispatch Box, with the term ‘forensic’ being thrown around in a most un-forensic way. However when one is being benchmarked against Jeremy Corbyn the
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A Case of One Step Forward Two Steps Back For Global Britain
The gap between the rhetoric and the policy of “Global Britain” was widened this week as The Department for International Trade announced Britain’s new Tariff regime. The change sees the abolition of so-called “nuisance
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Britain Getting Back on Track? It’s the Economy, Stupid.
In total, the British Government has borrowed a further £12bn to keep businesses up and running. But Britain needs to kick its economy into gear as soon as possible
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