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Comment: an instable world

May 20, 2024 3:49 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

With no single theme to unite the media, headlines are all over the place today, although that may change when... View Article

Comment: twenty years on

April 22, 2024 2:40 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Unlike a jail sentence, there is no time off for good behaviour when publishing a blog. The sentence is indeterminate,... View Article

Comment: fundamentally unserious

April 17, 2024 3:41 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In a very small way, the forces of rationality seem to have secured a small victories lately, firstly with Victoria... View Article

Comment: national decay

March 29, 2024 3:10 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

On the holiest day of the year, according to Christian calendar, illuminated signs celebrating the Muslim fasting period of Ramadan... View Article

Media: no news is bad news

August 20, 2023 1:51 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

If it wasn’t for the fact that I had a blogpost to write, I think I would have joined the... View Article

Time’s up for Westminster party animals

January 15, 2022 4:18 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

As we learn more about partygate, it emerges that booze culture has become the norm in Downing Street, to a... View Article

A new low for The Guardian

December 11, 2021 2:00 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

If you only consumed the news and the occasional comment piece on British politics from The Guardian, you’d never really... View Article

A decade from hell

December 9, 2021 2:59 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Along the way I’ve been wrong a few times about a few things, but the safest bet I ever made... View Article

Propaganda: the relentless demand for conformity

November 16, 2021 2:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Of late, we’ve seen the actions of the Liverpool terrorist bomber – who turns out to have been a failed... View Article

Covid: navigating the swamp

July 23, 2021 3:37 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

People like easy answers that fit in with their prejudices – and they like people who are certain. Generally people... View Article

Labour: nailing the coffin shut

June 10, 2021 2:39 pm Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Last week we observed that local media will often report violent incidents without a description of the suspect. In particular,... View Article

Britain’s rotten unions will kill Labour

May 31, 2021 3:40 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

A lot has been said on this website about the state of the modern Labour Party. It has many intractable... View Article

Antisemitism and the elephant in the British room

May 31, 2021 2:03 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

I do not think it is possible to examine and fight antisemitism in the UK without examining the role of... View Article

Antisemitism: a new low for Labour

May 26, 2021 2:41 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

Whenever antisemitism is in the news, Labour, shortly after, goes on the offensive attempting to lodge accusations of Islamophobia in... View Article

Brexit: a way back for the Lib Dems

May 26, 2021 1:44 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

If Brexit is all about being outward looking to the rest of the world then that’s all good. The problem... View Article

Israel must respond with the maximum force

May 12, 2021 9:42 am Published by Pete North Post a Comment

I was one of the first to argue for something like Iron Dome. I was told by an Israeli ambassador... View Article