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Richard North -
19 March 2024
I was tempted to write a piece on the NAO Report on heat pumps, profiled on the front page of yesterday’s Telegraph. This charted the near-total collapse of the government’s installation programme and, to absolutely no-one’s surprise, warned that the ongoing failure of the rollout “puts net zero goals at risk”. But then, taking the… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
18 March 2024
If one goes back two years to look at what was happening in Ukraine in March 2022, one thing that was very different from the situation now is the amount of information on the military situation that was coming through. By then, of course, we were only a month into the new phase of the… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
17 March 2024
Ever since the Northcote-Trevelyan report of 1854 was implemented, the Civil Service has been famed for its core values of “integrity, propriety and objectivity”. A key feature of the service is that appointments are made on merit and that individual civil servants seamlessly transfer their loyalty and expertise from one elected government to the next,… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
16 March 2024
Gove’s initiative on extremism, it seems, is invoking the wrath of free speech campaigners and their fellow travellers, with Toby Young raising concerns that the revised definition might be tweaked or deliberately misinterpreted by Labour, making life easier for Islamists to “fly under the radar”. This seems an odd objection as a new Labour government… View Article ...Read full story
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Richard North -
15 March 2024
An idea of how far indigenous Britons have to go in penetrating the fog of the London-centric bubble comes at the beginning of Michael Gove’s statement yesterday on extremism. Right there in his first few words he identified the problem, declaring – with not the least trace of irony – that “the United Kingdom is… View Article ...Read full story