Henry Nowak’s killing reopens the battle over Britain’s Sikh kirpan exemption
The kirpan symbolises a duty to defend the faith and protect the weak, and is usually a small, sheathed dagger worn out of sight.
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Immigration returns as biggest concern for British public
Some 41 per cent of those surveyed named immigration as an important issue facing the country, up nine points since April.
Yes, Britain today is governed by idiots, but that is not the sole reason it is in trouble
Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state?
Reform UK wants ‘patriotic curriculum’ in schools, including King’s portrait and English flag
Reform UK has unveiled education proposals requiring every state school in England to fly the Union Flag and display a portrait of King Charles, while pledging to…
UK House of Lords votes to allow abortion up to birth
The UK House of Lords has voted to allow a controversial clause on abortion legislation that removes criminal penalties for women ending their own pregnancies at…
The British establishment says Brexit is failing but they only offer zombie statistics
“Be wary or there’ll be woe Know your friend from your foe.”
The Strange and Self-Inflicted Death of Tory England
The classic book The Strange Death of Liberal England attempted to explain the rapid decline into irrelevance of the once-powerful Liberal Party.
‘We are the people of England, and we have not spoken yet’
This summer has been one of simmering tension in parts of Britain, if, happily, not to the extent many predicted before the break.
Every metric in British life reeks of necrosis
Jericho did not fall simply because of the trumpets, and Britain is not falling simply because of its utterly contemptible Labour government.
Post-war Conservatism is fading fast, yet the centre-right cannot grasp the fact
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s historic, embarrassing failure to be installed on the Bundestag’s first vote merely underscores an increasingly undeniable…
The centre-right across the West are being replaced by the populist-right
Nearly everywhere in the West, the centre-right is being replaced as the “mainstream” political party by the populist-right.
Vulgarity, crime, rapes, coarsening of public life, liberal England is gone
This year sees the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of a book called The Strange Death of Liberal England by the Anglo-American historian George Dangerfield.
Tories could fail again, part of a grim political season in the West
Anyone reasonably conversant with British history knows not to underestimate that redoubtable country that has made such an immense contribution to civilisation:…
Arch-Brexiteer Patel dumped in opening vote for new UK Conservative leader
Former UK home secretary Priti Patel's dreams of leading the UK Conservatives are in tatters after she, one of the so-called "arch-Brexiteers", was eliminated in…
Kemi Badenoch: the next Tory leader, heir to British heritage
July 4, 2024, Independence Day in the US and election day in the UK, will probably mark the next step in the progress of Kemi Badenoch to becoming the first British-African…
Why did Rishi call an early election leading to almost certain defeat? Tory MPs have plenty of theories
Why did Rishi Sunak – leading his Conservatives to almost certain defeat – call Britain’s general election up to six months earlier than he needed?
UK Conservatives are dying because they refuse to go populist
Britain’s Conservative Party is on track for its worst election result in its history, completely undoing their massive 2019 win.
UK’s Sunak, asked about summer election, says vote will be in second half of year
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak repeated on Wednesday that a national election would be held in the second half of the year when asked about unconfirmed rumours in…
Britain’s Conservatives are in trouble – their only chance now is to sack Rishi Sunak and return to Thatcherite values. If they don’t, the Party is doomed
The Conservative government in the United Kingdom shows every likelihood of being decisively defeated in the next election, later this year.
As UK’s ruling Conservatives mull general election date, decency breaks out on Tory benches
There is an aspect over the decision about the timing of the UK general election that has been overlooked and it is a very human angle.
Can the EU learn from Britain’s ‘extremism crackdown’? Not giving public money to Islamists is long overdue, but the new definitions could be used against conservatives
In an effort to “keep our citizens safe and our country secure”, Britain’s Conservative government has announced a new definition of extremism.
Right on? Brexiteer Farage open to ‘joining Tories’ after UK elections
Former leading Brexiteer Nigel Farage said he is “open-minded” about joining the Conservative Party after the next UK elections because he said he believes in…
Does Spain’s baffling Socialist affability justify a Conservative’s gamble on Labour in UK election?
It’s a tough time to be a Brit - the state of the country is not good. It’s even tougher, though, to be a Conservative Brit.
Reform UK boss says Farage mulls frontline politics return to ‘save Britain’
Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage has kept the British Establishment guessing yet again after his ally, the Reform UK leader Richard Tice, revealed the former UK Independence…
UK Government reduces ‘love tax’ Spouse Visa threshold
The UK Government has bowed to pressure to cut a financial requirement that UK citizens with foreign spouses wanting to live in Britain needed to earn a minimum…
There is no hope left for Britain’s Conservatives – David Cameron’s return proves it
In Géricault’s great masterpiece, The Raft of the Medusa, despite the horrors of imminent death and cannibalism, there is hope for the remaining crew members.
British Conservatives push to leave European Convention on Human Rights
Several voices in the UK Conservative Party are campaigning for the country to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Conservatives are ‘evil’, UK bank staff say in leaked messages
Leaked messages from a British online bank have shown staff members deriding Conservatives as being "evil", a report in the British press has claimed.
UK bank ‘shut Farage’s account over values’
Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said a British bank that abruptly closed his account did so because his views “do not align with our values”.
Sunak ‘no’ to Gibraltar compromise as UK-Spain talks stall
UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has leapt to the defence of British territory Gibraltar as treaty talks between his government and Spain stalled following a Spanish…