Defence: the worst of all possible worlds

By Richard North - 17 July 2026

While attention (in the legacy media and the political social media) is focused on The Replacement’s next moves – his cabinet appointments, policies and much else, the defence debate continues behind the scenes with some intensity, centred largely on assessing government intentions via the Delphic organ of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP). The debate, however,… View Article
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Politics:  a country in better shape?

By Richard North - 16 July 2026

As leader of the opposition heading a party that had just lost the 2019 election – the worst result since 1935, said Keir Starmer at PMQs yesterday, “I turned my party to face the country and Labour won a landslide general election”. After two years (in office), he went on to say, “we have stabilised… View Article
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Politics: murder most foul

By Richard North - 15 July 2026

I don’t think there’s a single Englishman alive who hasn’t fantasised about following in the footsteps of Guido Fawkes – said to be the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions. But if it is easy to countenance, in the abstract, the mass slaughter of faceless MPs, despatching individuals doesn’t have the same appeal…. View Article
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Politics: a martyr for the Right

By Richard North - 14 July 2026

After Southport, with the gruesome murders attributed to a “Welsh choirboy”, policing in England was thought to have dredged such depths of incompetence that a case could be made that public confidence had reached rock bottom. Then came the Henry Novak murder where, if possible, the police seem to have dredged a new low, further… View Article
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Politics: it isn’t fair

By Richard North - 13 July 2026

A man gets into his car in Rotherham, apparently with a murder weapon tucked into his pocket. He drives 270 miles directly to a remote village on the flanks of Dartmoor, parks up and walks to the house of a prominent politician, where he murders her. He drives back to Rotherham where, a few days… View Article
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