Immigration: push factors
September 15, 2023 9:56 amLeave your thoughts
As we remarked in the previous post, for all the turmoil, though, the manifest lack of interest in African affairs... View Article
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Brexit: a revolution in limbo
September 11, 2023 12:38 pmMost people I talk to say that #Brexit hasn’t affected them in any noticeable sense. I see a lot of... View Article
Net Zero: the dereliction of journalism
September 6, 2023 12:01 amThere’s a Deutsche Welle documentary doing the rounds this week entitled Power Failure in Germany – Horror Story or Genuine... View Article
Brexit: situations vacant
August 28, 2023 9:29 pmFor reasons that escape me, Brexit is trending on the social network formerly known as Twitter today. I haven’t looked... View Article
Dinghy migrants: a lack of political will
August 24, 2023 10:36 pmReported on GB News, a record-breaking 175,457 people were waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application in the... View Article
The slow death of the BBC
August 17, 2023 2:05 pmOver on Twitter, the BBC is asking why we’re no longer tuning into BBC Radio 4. There’s a very simple... View Article
The case for more referendums
August 16, 2023 9:25 amFrom 2015 to 2020 British politics was truly alive. It was interesting. It was informative. It was consequential. It was... View Article
Brexit: unfinished business
August 11, 2023 12:48 pmI’m slowly getting a sense that Brexit is becoming a political timebomb. For their own respective reasons, Labour and the... View Article
The suffocation of Britain
August 8, 2023 2:17 pmThere’s a reason Britain’s economy is stagnating. Compensation culture is now embedded in the national psyche. It is the belief... View Article
Net Zero: the unwanted revolution
July 31, 2023 12:59 pmBritain is a world leader in net zero fantasies and delusions says Tim Stanley in The Telegraph. There’s nothing here... View Article
The biggest betrayal of Ukraine is yet to come
July 28, 2023 6:15 pmThere are days when I wonder why either of us bother with blogging. It’s a big financial and personal sacrifice... View Article
Net Zero: turning tides
July 27, 2023 12:49 pmTwitter is a very different animal under its new management. The usual censorship is creeping back in and my restored... View Article
The end of Net Zero?
July 24, 2023 1:18 pmRishi Sunak has said today that the government’s net zero targets were important to him, but he did not want... View Article
Defence: troubled waters
July 22, 2023 10:28 pmIn defence news, the MoD recently took the decision to delay purchasing 14 Chinooks to save costs. The order, originally... View Article
Deeper into the political abyss
July 22, 2023 5:39 amKeir Mather is Labour’s youngest and newest MP at 25 years old. He did his first degree in history and... View Article
Europe in crisis
July 20, 2023 3:49 pmThere are articles aplenty on the rise of the populist right in Europe. It’s been brewing for a long time.... View Article