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Brexit: nothing to see here

April 21, 2021 2:35 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Given the squealing last January over the Commission’s proposal to use Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, one might... View Article

The BBC needs to stop being squeamish about race

April 20, 2021 11:36 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Race quango commissioners have said it. Prime ministers have said it. Many black people have said as much. White people... View Article

Black lives matter? Prove it Mr Khan.

April 20, 2021 10:09 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

For as long as the Mayor of London is more interested in the removal of statues than eliminating knife crime,... View Article

Brexit Britain’s toxic waste dilemma

April 20, 2021 6:05 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

The problem with a vast consumer economy is the question of what to do with gargantuan volumes of waste. This... View Article

Salmond’s muddled thinking on Efta

April 20, 2021 11:26 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Alex Slamond’s breakaway party, Alba, has done the unusual thing and attempted an actual policy as regards to Scotland’s place... View Article

Brexit: panem et circenses

April 20, 2021 1:09 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I don’t care if people are passionately interested in it. Short of terrorists blowing up Wembley Stadium or machine-gunning the... View Article

Covid: the end of the road for lockdowns

April 19, 2021 10:20 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Anti-lockdowners and Covid sceptics have an easy time of it on Twitter largely because the government’s response and its communications... View Article

Brexit: no better off?

April 19, 2021 1:58 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is no fixed methodology set out for determining the classification of shellfish waters. Essentially, it is up to each... View Article

Britain faces a second wave of right wing populism

April 18, 2021 12:11 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

It is now commonplace on the left to describe all opposition as “far right”. When I was was growing up,... View Article

Brexit: disorganised on crime

April 18, 2021 1:49 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As an antidote to the trivia which infests the legacy media, it was almost a relief yesterday to see a... View Article

Brexit: the solution is not to have a solution

April 17, 2021 11:21 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

I’m of the view that a war is never really over unless there is an outright decisive victor. The same... View Article

Brexit: beyond the trivia

April 17, 2021 2:09 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Firmly in the category of “nothing makes sense”, we see the latest YouGov poll give the Conservatives a commanding lead of 43... View Article

Brexit: the enemy within

April 16, 2021 8:57 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

There is an ongoing dispute on Twitter between the various factions as to who is at fault for this particular... View Article

Like it or not, the Protocol is here to stay

April 16, 2021 3:50 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

It would seem the official line from Frost is that the UK will work with the EU to find solutions... View Article

Separatism is the road to Scottish serfdom

April 16, 2021 10:29 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

My hunch is that Scottish separation would be an all round bad thing. The SNP is quite like Labour in... View Article

Afghanistan: lost before it started

April 16, 2021 1:33 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I think we can safely leave the Ukraine for a while, in the reasonably certain knowledge that nothing very much... View Article

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